318 Russian Quotes for You to Enjoy

Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers. Sunita Williams

Funny Words Language Example Russian For Example Another How Diapers Tape Scotch Get Means Used

I will say one of my favorite Russian side dishes is beet salad. It is dehydrated beets chopped very finely with nuts. It is a great side dish. I would like to try to make this when I get home. The nuts make it! Sunita Williams

Home Great Try Will Side Say Nuts Favorite Would Finely Russian Like Make Salad Very Get Dish Dishes Chopped

All of us who are flying on international space stations speak some Russian and speak some English. Both the languages are needed to fly in a Russian spacecraft and communicate with your colleagues. Sunita Williams

Communicate Speak Space Fly Flying Stations Colleagues Some Russian Both Spacecraft Us Your Languages English Who International Needed

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies. Suzy Menkes

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I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much. Svetlana Alexievich

Love Hate People Ukraine Russian Russian People Very Much

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively. Svetlana Alexievich

Freedom Our Way Stripes Out Finding Slowly Russian Various Instead Red Empire Era Debris

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century. Tariq Ali

Politics War Great Integrity Generation World Revolution Ralph Russian He Almost Intellectual Left-Wing Dominated Formed Century Socialist Socialists Second Belonged World War Second World War

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth. Ted Turner

Life Other Back Earth States Would Would-Be Thousands Weapons Russian Fired Arsenal End Targets Them United United States Nuclear Nuclear Weapons

It has been almost three years since U.S. President Barack Obama pipsqueaked on his chemical-weapons 'red line' in Syria and joined with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in the pantomime that resulted in the Sept. 27, 2013 U.N. Security Council Resolution 2118, which called on Assad to surrender his chemical weapons stockpile. Terry Glavin

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Roughly nine of every 10 Syrian war dead since 2011 are on the butcher's bill accumulated by Assad and his friends in Iran's Quds Force, the Iran-allied Hezbollah, and the Russian air force. Terry Glavin

War Air Force Every Nine Air Syrian Russian Since Dead Force His Iran Friends Accumulate Bill Roughly Butcher

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action. Til Schweiger

Action Russian Like Comedies Audience Male Heaven Door Loved

In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're the Russian media, whether you're Breitbart, is that you manufacture lots of stuff that isn't true. The second step is that you claim that everyone is like this. Timothy D. Snyder

You Emotions World First Everyone Claim Russian Take Factual Step True Stuff Like Alternative First Step Discourse Lots Whether Realities Manufacture Descent Media Second

It is unclear how much money Trump has, but it is not enough to matter in Russia. If he keeps up his pose as the tough billionaire, he will be flattered by the Russian media, scorned by those who matter in Russia, and then easily crushed by men far richer and smarter than he. Timothy D. Snyder

Money Matter Will Men Tough Crushed Enough Those Easily Russia Russian Unclear He Smarter How How Much How Much Money His Trump Scorned Up Than Flattered Far Then Much Richer Who Billionaire Media Keeps Pose