Top 495 Quotes & Sayings by Belarusian Authors - Page 7

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

I have only white or black; I don't want the gray. Everything or nothing.

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

It's OK to be a good county cricketer but when you take the step up, you never know how your career might go.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

During the years of my presidency, I lived a tough and difficult life.

Freddie Roach is a great boxing coach.

I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.

From my point of view, this is the best time of the year. I don't love heat. I'm a winter guy.

Permit me to be immodest, but I did something for this country.

I'm not a public person.

Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.

No one will bowl at 90mph all day every day. There will be spells when you have to bowl within yourself.

You don't have to put yourself under pressure, you don't have to be fit even before your body is fit.

I am not going to do myself any good by coming back before I'm fully fit, so I will take my time and do what is best for me and my life.

We are ready and open to a dialogue with all sides, all parties and all countries that respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Belarus.

I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human soul. I am drawn to that small space called a human being... a single individual. In reality, that is where everything happens.

You're young and you want to play, you have got to make the most of your youth because before you know it, you're 20, 21 or even 25 if you're unlucky, and you're still trialing and hoping to get a chance. And then a lot of people don't take chances on guys who are a little bit older.

Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

After I lost to Kharitonov, some of my trainers said, 'You should retire. Arlovski's done.' The most embarrassing thing for me was that people that I trusted, they didn't tell me right to my face. They made some gossip behind my back.

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not frightening. I am not a bad person at all.

I don't need to prove anything to anybody.

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

I have only you, the people of Belarus, and I will serve to the last of my days.

When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other.

As president, I'm not supposed to play games or show my hand, because there's a lot going on behind the scenes that you don't see or hear and don't need to know.

I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

When Test cricket is good, it's amazing, the best, even if it is more taxing on the body and is a lot more mentally taxing.

All my opponents are tough, but the one opponent who was most difficult for me was Pedro Rizzo.

I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu.

For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

I guess making my debut outside of England would have been a bit more difficult but it was nice to debut somewhere that you're familiar with.

Young blood keeps you alive. It's keep you on your tippy toes.

It's not true that modern cricketers only want to be white-ball cricketers. Because I had a good World Cup that doesn't mean I only like World Cup cricket.

Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone.

In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone.

I'm like Nike, just do it.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.

I think wickets just depend on how lucky you are at the time.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

That's the one thing about being in India. You get to experience superstardom. In England, no one bothers you, really.

I give 100 per cent every time I go out there and I don't want to go out on the field unless I can guarantee doing that.

I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.

I enjoyed working with Van Damme. He is very original person and actor.

As a fighter, from my fighting experience a problem for me was I never too much stick with my game plan.

Being in a Covid bubble, you are going to need your family with you. It helps you stay sane. Four or five days in, you start to get a little bit of cabin fever. You need your family to take some of that pressure off you.

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.

Dictators don't come from elections.

The way I am looking at things is that I would rather miss a few weeks of a year so that I have a few more years in my career.

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.

Not many days you get a nice, fast bowling wicket.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

India is a hard place to play.