"I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that"

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Source : Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

Boris Yeltsin

#Mistake Quotes #Stress Quotes #Republic Quotes

“Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.”
“We're going to tear those boys apart.”
“Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.”
“The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.”
“Is love stronger when it let's go or when it holds on?”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2004). “Kartography”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.”
“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”
“Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.”

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