Top 470 Quotes & Sayings by Ukrainian Authors - Page 2

Please, please stop saying that Ukraine is a corrupt country, because from now, it's not true. We want to change this image.

Right now, my full concentration is on politics in Ukraine, and I feel that the people need me there.

Rigondeaux is a high-class boxer. He is smart, has speed and skill.

When I have to get prepared for a fight, I leave my family. Then I live with my team. Otherwise, it will embarrass me: the children want to play.

Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.

Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It's more like MMA.

I may sound a bit crazy, but I get really excited with all the enormous hard work that I put myself through every day.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

I'm not a monster; I'm a white rabbit.

Every fighter thinks about their legacy, and I'm not any different.

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

Nowadays, it's not more about the sport; it's about the business. All the boxers became businessmen, not boxers. They look just to get the money, not the glory.

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.

I love to love. I just have to find somebody to love.

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

The life of a boxing athlete is short, so I don't have time to waste or time to take tune-up fights or whatever.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

And the beauty, me being a dance ambassador, is - what I find a lot of pride in is how inclusive dance is and that it doesn't judge based on any of the past. It kind of just wholeheartedly welcomes people in.

Corruption is Ukraine's main enemy; we must destroy it. It's really painful to hear that Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe.

The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years.

Cease fire is the main and the most important precondition for launching an implementation of the Minsk agreement.

I miss the ring and look forward to hearing the opening bell ring again.

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

You have to play defense, that's how you win.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

I remember the Soviet Union and when the Iron Curtain fell down in 1991. I was just 20 years old, and everybody had a dream to live in a modern democratic society, in a modern country. More than 15 years passed, and nothing changed. There's a saying I like very much: if you want a thing done well, do it by yourself.

I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.

I think that Wladimir is more talented than I, and he has tremendous punching power. He's younger. He's the one. He's better than me.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

There's this love and pride and loyalty, but there's also a great deal of generosity and I think that's at the core of why I love being a performer.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

I've played classical violin since I was 5 years old.

I don't want to work with a person just to have someone there.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Everybody wants to see Ukraine - one of the largest countries in Europe - stable with a stable economic situation, because instability in Ukraine can bring instability in the whole region.

Ukraine is a very responsible state and a very responsible part of the Minsk Agreement. We do everything we promise.

I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have.

Every partner has their strengths, and our responsibility as professionals is to recognize those strengths and capitalize on them, choreographically. You have to translate that chemistry on the dance floor and make their personalities shine.

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

Ukraine is an industrialized nation that can produce their own weapons. We're talking about the defensive weapons, which help us just defensively.

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.

I feel like having kids is the greatest gift you can possibly have.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

I don't want to interfere in U.S. elections.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

The reason I like Olympic boxing is that all the best fighters come together and find out who the best fighter is.

In sport, you only see the fighter, but it's teamwork. Without a good team, you will never be the best. In boxing, you have to work with the best coach, the best lawyer, the best manager, the best doctor. Exactly the same principle applies in politics.

There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S. I had no idea the military aid was held up.