"Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first."

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Source : JOHN GUNTHER (1958). “INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY”

John Gunther

#War Quotes #Cities Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.”
“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”

Source : Die Russische Revolution sec. 4 (1918)
“You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.”
“Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'”
“This girl said "Yes" when I wasn't ready. I kissed her lightly and got so dizzy I had to sit down.”
“You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.86, Penguin
“But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.”

Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.181, Bloomsbury Publishing

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