"Putin got lucky with the Sochi Olympics - it didn't fail, it was a great spectacle - and then he thought, "Why not grab Crimea?" And ended up getting stuck. If he had been a wise man, he wouldn't have done that. Of course, then he wouldn't have held the Olympics, either."

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Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

Vladimir Voinovich

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.”
“When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.”
“Thereâ€™s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesnâ€™t help anyone and itâ€™s getting old.”
“As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.”
“There is a real effort to bully women out of public spaces and offline with violent intimidation. That issue speaks not just to casual sexism, which is more common, but actual, violent hatred of women by some.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.18, Applewood Books
“Istanbul and the western and southern seaboards are very Europeanized. But then you have the Kurdish areas, in the southeast. That's Turkey's Middle East, where you have a different society, which itself is changing but much more slowly, where women are maltreated, are expected to have huge families, and are often basically beasts of burden. That is changing - with education, with the movement of people from the southeast to the west and the cities. As with so much in Turkey, you can't expect change to happen overnight.”

Source : "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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