Top 495 Quotes & Sayings by Belarusian Authors - Page 8

Let me be clear about something: I've never changed my attitude towards playing for England. I've always wanted to play all three formats. That hasn't changed, and never will as far as I'm concerned.

I want to prevent us reifying 'the Internet' as something to be preserved like some people want to preserve the American Constitution as it was written.

The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.

I want to fight as long as possible and of course I want to be a champion.

American envoys came to see me before the crisis in Iraq and asked me to say that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq. I refused. They even told me that things would go well for Belarus in terms of investments, etc. All I had to do was to support them. I told them that I couldn't do it because I knew that there were no nuclear weapons there.

Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we've never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.

No more flying knees against Fedor Emelianenko, no more getting back with my hands down like how it was against Rogers. I just can't do that anymore.

After my loss to Rogers, I had a meeting with all my trainers and they kind of gave me the ultimatum that you have to do it our way, or you have to look for some different trainers. And now I've become more discipline.

The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

If someone is trying to help me, I'm going to benefit from listening.

It doesn't bother me what people are saying. Social media is there for people to voice their criticism, so you shouldn't take that to heart.

After each fight I go home to my wife and son and I talk to them about what our family should do.

American democracy has two faces.

Test cricket is pretty much the same as first-class - know what your strengths are and stick to them.

As far as the business of MMA, it's very important to me keep building my own career.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.

Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave.

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

If you want to be the best fighter, you have to fight the best fighter.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks.

The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value.

I know for a fact that I have to keep winning and train hard and listen to my coaches.

Filipino fighters are very tough, they have great heart every time they step into a ring or a cage.

There's not much to complain about in life - apart from bad Wi-Fi, of course!

Apple has an opening to say, 'The tools we are selling to you will enable you to do things rather than do things for you.' Google's vision is tools that will do things for you.

I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.

I'm very stubborn.

Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

When I have free time between fights I might do a movie, because it's a lot of fun.

Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.

I'm just being honest, if I get one wicket or three, the way I bowl doesn't change.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

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.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

Every morning, when I wake up in camp, I remember what I want. I want to be champion of the world again.

I have always been of the belief that whatever the conditions, you just crack on with it.

I'm a very blessed man because I have good friends and family that motivate me.

I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.'

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

It is impossible to run in the whole day bowling at 90mph. If you can show me someone who does it then fair play. But I've not seen any bowler who bowls 90mph do it for a whole day.

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

I grew up in the countryside.

First of all, my beautiful wife... she lets me do what I love to do.

If I can be heavyweight champion of boxing, I have to try. That is why I want to train myself in professional boxing.

Greg Jackson gave me hope after four losses. After my last loss in the Strikeforce grand prix against Kharitonov, I gave him a call and asked him if he thought I should retire. Some of my trainers, some people told me I had lost it. He said, 'Absolutely not. Just come to Albuquerque,' and gave me that hope.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.

If you're going to play in all three formats, you can't play all the games. You probably play two Test matches, miss the last one and take some time off and maybe come back for the second ODI or second T20.

As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.

I'm pretty sure Michael Holding doesn't know anything that is going on behind the scenes.

The protests may turn into something entirely new. Our people are very creative and well-organized. Some of them are singing in shopping malls. Students organize things here and there, without any coordination.