Top 470 Quotes & Sayings by Ukrainian Authors - Page 7

Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

I try to do my very best and hopefully that comes through, first to my partner, second of all with Dancing with the Stars, my employer, and third of all with the fans.

I am like every single fighter - going into the ring, I have in my mind, 'Finish the bout before all the rounds are over, and to get the victory before that.'

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

I give 100 percent every day in the gym.

The money is important in life, but the money is not everything. I don't want to sell myself for money. I don't want to sell my reputation for money.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

Being a son to the greatest parents of all is up there with hopefully being a decent friend to some.

European democracy, for me, is the best form of government invented by mankind.

I mean, I'm a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!

While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.

If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

People in Russia have a right to their choice if they want to live in an empire, but they need to accept that people in Ukraine have their right to be free.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

I want to thank the WBC and its president, Don Jose Sulaiman, for the support in our fight for democracy and freedom in Ukraine.

If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded.

Linares is one of the best fighters in his weight class.

We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also corrupt. And that is our main goal: to change the system, to break the system, to make it modern.

I watched the buildings go down on 9/11. I saw how much that impacted our country.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.

The toughest opponent is me. A lot of times, you don't want to train. You don't want to box. Sometimes, life hits you to the point where you don't even want to live. You have to fight with that person. You have to make yourself wake up in the morning. You have to make yourself watch your weight. That's how I fight with that person.

I want to speak English perfectly. In fact, I want to speak English just like I fight, and, until that moment, I find it very hard to do an interview solely in English.

The team I support is Manchester City. And that's because a friend of mine, who I visited when I was in England, Alexander Zinchenko, plays for them.

My whole life, I was told that the U.S. was a horrible country.

I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

I don't physically have the strength to be productive at work following a three-hour sleep. I can't do that.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

Physical pain is temporary.

It's not in my character to say what I'm going to do and how it's going to go.

I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

I have nothing but the most incredible things to say about Christie Brinkley because of the person that I've met in the last month and a half, not really having an extensive knowledge of what her career looked like.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

I will not agree to go to war in the Donbass. I know there are a lot of hotheads, especially those who hold rallies and say, 'Let's go fight and win it all back!' But at what price? What is the cost? It's another story of lives and land. And I won't do it.

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

I'm not a big planner when I travel; I just feel it out.

I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.

Danny Williams broke my dream. Iron Mike, for me, was the dream. For many years, I would see Tyson and say, 'Mike, I want to fight you.' He was on his way back, and we were making conversation about a fight between me and him. So I was very surprised and disappointed when he lost.

I think Marriaga is a very good opponent for me. It's very hard when you have to find the keys to his defense. If people don't understand boxing, they don't know what he's capable to do. I understand it all.

The reality of growing up is we changed schools so many times, my brother was my best friend. We have a five-year age gap, and my brother inspired me. He started boxing, and I just want to show that I could do things better than him.

It was and is a great honor to hold the WBC title, and I've always done it with pride.

If you are an educated man, you respect your opponent, his team, and all those people around; then you are truly a human being.

I am interested in the heavyweight division, and I'll tell you why: Many experts say that I shouldn't go up in weight, that I'm too small for it. My size does not allow me to be victorious in this division.

Maybe some Ukrainians would like to have Sweden or Canada for a neighbor, but we have Russia.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

I play a mean game of Connect Four.

I picked Tony Bellew because he is the man that takes the biggest challenges. He is not the usual type of fighter that will come, see how hard it is, and quit. He will come to fight until the end. These are the kind of fights that the world wants to see.