#russians

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. ↗

— Gerd von Rundstedt

#another #areas #arrival #back #blocked

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. ↗

— Stendhal

#distance #fifty #french #imitate #russians

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. ↗

— Anton Rubinstein

#christian #christians #german #germans #jew

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space. ↗

— Lincoln Davis

#continue #every #example #flights #follow

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism. ↗

— Jack Levine

#corrupting #here #russians #those #toward

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#how #men #russians #songs

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. ↗

— Emo Philips

#evil #i #incompetence #like #office

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#feared #had #just #languages #manage

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again! ↗

— Mathias Rust

#again #angry #been #condition #good

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our