Top 495 Quotes & Sayings by Belarusian Authors - Page 5

There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred.

I personally believe in test cricket you get a lot more opportunities to redeem yourself.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

When I found out I was fighting Tim Sylvia it was the best day of my life. I don't like him, I don't respect him and I will have no problem kicking him in the head and stomping on his body. It will be fun.

For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

If there are three seamers, we don't need to be bowling long spells. Either way, it doesn't matter to me whether I am going to be bowling short or long spells.

Just trying to, with age, you have to decide what's more important for you, choose what's more important for you as a person, father, husband.

Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad.

I still have, like, at age 40, I'm training more than I used to train when I was 25.

Love is what brings us into this world.

The bad blood between me and Tim Sylvia, it's over, and that's it.

I have fans that stuck by me all the time that motivate me.

To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually consists of three elements: discovery, production, and recommendation.

I asked Strikeforce to release me.

To be straight, if I play and don't bowl 90 miles an hour it's going to be news. If I don't bowl 90 miles per hour for long enough it's going to be news. If I don't put my left sock on first, it's going to be news. I understand that is the scrutiny of playing at this level and being in that spotlight.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

We are trying to work around the world. We would like very much to cooperate with the United States.

A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.

Chicago is a great city and I love coming back each and every time and thinking about all the great memories I have made here.

I'm so proud that women are playing a great role in these demonstrations, in this so-called revolution. Because our women showed that women play a great role in everyday life.

It is time to stop the anarchy on the Internet. We cannot allow this great technological achievement of man to be turned into an information garbage heap.

You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together.

I am sure that it is the Belarus people who are the masters in our state.

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

I used to always be running around as a kid, I couldn't sit still.

You can be in India bowling at 90mph and it doesn't matter because the wickets are flat and the batsmen are really good.

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of some empire, a province in this empire - you know, we're probably not ready for that yet, neither in Kazakhstan nor in Belarus.

When I left in 2007, it was the same thing for me when I fought in different organizations. I left the UFC on good terms and I had nothing bad to say about Dana White or anyone else. It was a business decision at the time and I'm glad they brought me back.

To me, the success of the cyberactivists in Tunisia is actually very interesting, because many of them explicitly rejected any support from Washington.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

I remember the feeling of being on top of the world.

We will ensure the interests of both the East and the West in Belarus. Don't try to rip us apart; don't try to make us collide with Russia or with the West.

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

At the end of the day, human beings are social people. If you have had a bad day, there is no escape when you are in a bubble.

I want Fedor to beat Sylvia.

You know, I have to admit that this political crisis that takes place in our country is absolutely an internal affair. And we have - the Belarusian people - have a responsibility for what's going on.

Tim Sylvia is 6-foot-8, 265, and Fedor beat him, so that showed that size doesn't make a big difference.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.

From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.

The Belarussian people trust their army and are confident in the reliability of the national security system.

I'm not too sure how it will go but I think whenever I do get the chance to bat I can just show what I can do and hopefully with a lot of performances I could squeeze my way up the order a bit.

Seeing someone go down, you don't ever want to see anyone getting carried off on a stretcher or you don't want to see anyone missing a day or another game.

I am a fighter and I like to fight and I like to get paid.

I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being.

I don't just want to be in the Top 10, I want to be in the Top 2 or 3 in the world.

Innovations, IT technologies, privatisation - it is all clear. We've conquered all of them. But everything is, very simply, one should get undressed and work.

My body and my mind let me fight, let me train hard, so I'm a blessed person.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

I have improved my kickboxing, and I am very good on the ground.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.

I want to make it very clear, collaboration with the regime of Mr. Lukashenko at the moment means the support for violence and blatant violation of human rights.

When I was a kid, all the walls in my room were papered with posters portraying Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. I think working with Van Damme was a great experiment. It was awesome!

I have to trust my trainers 100 percent.

My priorities are my family and my career.

The time I spend bowling with the white ball is a lot less than in Test cricket.

People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.