R Quotes
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“Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.”
“Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.”
“Russians can be unhappy, yet still loyal. Putin is to a large extent being rated not as a man, not even as a politician, but as an icon of Russia. To vote for him is not to endorse a program, but to express patriotism”
Source: We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right
“Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.”
“Russians don't complain, usually.”
“Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.”
“Russians don't want to fight ISIS in Syria. They want to leave that to us. Aside from that, I don't know what are the objectives that Mr. Trump seeks in having a good relationship with Mr. Putin.”
“Russians had not grudged it when the world war turned both the Atlantic and Pacific into 'American lakes,' but when these same Americans, who had taken all the oceans and who were building bases on their islands and shores, called Russia greedy for taking back what she formerly owned, this ranked.”
Source: The Stalin era
“Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.”
“Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .”
“Russians in their hour of victory really hoped that their long isolation had ended; that their terrible war losses had brought for them the friendship of America and Britain, with long generations of peace. Week by week I saw that hope die in their faces. The change began with our atom-bomb on Hiroshima. Fear came back into eyes that had hardly yet seen peace. After the fear came the thought: Why had America slain a quarter of a million people in two Japanese cities, when Japan was already suing for peace?”
Source: The Stalin era
“Russians like the rest of us prefer to believe that their history has progressed in a straight and positive line. They explain away troubling events such as brutal reigns of Ivan the Terrible or Stalin as necessary stages on the path to greatness.”
Source: Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past
“Russians love a good plot--camarillas, Masons, whatever--where in fact there is usually just plain sloppiness. Someone mistrusted someone else; someone failed to warn someone else. So someone decided to take out more insurance, called up the troops and removed the tsar from Petersburg. Great and terrible events in Russia are usually due to someone's stupidity or laziness.”
Source: The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
“Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.”
“Russians understand the rhythm of despair.”
Source: Journey
“Russians want to drill in the Arctic. Rex Tillerson has negotiated a multibillion-dollar deal with Exxon to do that drilling. They can't get the equipment, the supplies and all that they need until the sanctions are lifted. They want Donald Trump; not only will he support lifting those sanctions, he also will turn a blind eye to the expansion that Putin is trying to do. He does not care about them having invade Crimea and does not care whether or not this egotistical maniac, Vladimir Putin, is attempting to reunite the whole Soviet Union.”
“Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.”
Source: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
“Rust-pink fish roe wrapped in a shiso leaf and fried in tempura batter. The fact that it is eaten in a plastic hut outdoors in January only adds to its deliciousness.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.”
“Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.”
“Rusted Flowers
From her heart’s
tear-salted soil,
rusted flowers grew.
A serrated beauty;
wounding all those
who bent near.”
“Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
“Ruth and I are happily incompatible.”
Source: Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith
“Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.”
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
“Ruth Bowers laid her hand, as she spoke, on Frances's arm and the physical contact was like a burn, distracting her totally. Two days after Steven's death she had lain in bed and thought, I shall never again feel someone else's arms round me, another person's body close up against mine, not sex, not nakedness, just physical closeness, often, casually, with another human being. And now the touch of others--Zoe's quick hugs, Tabitha's dutiful brushing of the cheek--had this disproportionate effect. To be touched was both a sacrilege and a joy.”
Source: Perfect Happiness
“Ruth, do what you must to keep our family out of harm’s way.”
Source: Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
“Ruth Gentry at six o'clock," I whisper.
His head starts twisting around, which also really isn't helping with the totally chill and not at all suspicious vibe. "Six o'clock? Where is six o'clock?"
"Actually...I'm not even sure why I said that, because I don't know where six o'clock is either. But it sounded like the right thing to say -- just --behind you. Ruth Gentry is behind you, and she's watching us.”
Source: It's Elementary
“Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd seen Lindsey walking home with Samuel and seen her smile with him. She watched as my sister said yes to pancakes and no to everything else. She had tried to imagine herself being my sister as she had spent time imagining being me.”
“Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.”
“Ruth likes the Vast paintings by John Martin, the Vatican, the Norfolk sky.”
Source: The Crossing Places
“Ruth marveled at how two souls— two completely different species— could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold.”
Source: Daughter of Moloka'i
“Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.”
“Ruth, que quería que todos creyeran lo que ella sabía: que los muertos realmente nos hablan, que, en el aire que rodea a los vivos, los espíritus se mueven, se entremezclan y ríen con nosotros. Son el oxígeno que respiramos.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“Ruth’s adoption wasn’t too far from what today’s natural Jews must do, when they want to join the Messiah’s heavenly family: “but when the completion of the time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law, so that we could receive adoption as sons.” –Gal 4:4-5
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 43”
Source: Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material
“Ruth taught us to follow our heart to find our hope.
Sarah said we shouldn't complicate God's promise with our solution.
Rahab told us that God's story is full of surprises.
Hannah explained that God blesses the promises we keep to Him.
Abigail said that a single act of wisdom can change our destiny.
Miriam told us that comparison with others can change our destiny.
Mary exhorted us not to miss our moment with God.
Martha taught that when Jesus is in the house, we should give Him our full attention.
The Samaritan Woman said that God will always go out of His way for us.”
Source: Wisdom from Women in the Bible: Giants of the Faith Speak into Our Lives
“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.”
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
“Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.”
“Ruth, when you go, we must flee with you. Follow me to the Salon, it will be chilly, but this is where I hid as a child when I did not want to be found; they will not find us now.”
Source: Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime
“Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.”
“Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.”
“Ruthie started to cry at Julia's use of the word "hate," though Ruthie knew it was true, accurate. For a long time now it had been easier just to hate her sister. Easier to try to define the relationship with that simple emotion than to live with the conflicting set of feelings Julia brought forth.”
Source: A Soft Place to Land
“Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.”
“Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.”
“Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.”
Source: Emile
“Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.”
“Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.”
Source: NIV, Ragamuffin Bible, eBook: Meditations for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Brokenhearted
“Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!”
“Ruthless. That’s my girl.”