"Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Marvin Kalb

#Ukraine Quotes #Giving Quotes #Historical Quotes

“As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.”

Source : Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan
“Jessica Alba to me is on the top of the food chain. She's gorgeous, she's smart, and she really takes care of herself. I think that she looks great. I think that as Jennifer Aniston gets older, she looks better and better, and I really like that.”
“She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.”
“I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.”

Source : "Davis is as dead as a DD" by Bob Roberts, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2005.
“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”

Source : "Ancillary Justice". Book by Ann Leckie, Orbit Books, Chapter 6 (p. 88), October 1, 2013.
“Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear...but because of your love.”
“When I was a kid I had an imaginary friend and I used to think that he went everywhere with me, and that I could talk to him and that he could hear me, and that he could grant me wishes and stuff. And then I grew up, and I stopped going to church.”

Source : Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.171, Penguin
“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.”

Source : Roderick Nash (2001). “Wilderness and the American Mind”, p.47, Yale University Press

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