Russian General Zhukov Quotes & Sayings

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed. — Henry David Thoreau

I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly's wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life. — Diego Rivera

He made me realize that hard work
that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task
is joyous — Sherman Alexie

One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody. — Matthew Lewis

He looks once in my eyes, a question still there. But we are beyond questions. We are in a plsce where there are only answers, and my answer to him is yes. — Beth Revis

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. — Thomas A. Edison

In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn't unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of the society at large. The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained unbreached. — Katherine Boo

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people. — Rush Limbaugh

I like to build things. I like to do things. — Walter Chrysler

What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why fear? How can it harm you? Just false conceptions, just conditionings given by the society - that you have to hide, that you have to protect yourself, that you have to be constantly in a fighting mood, that everybody is and enemy, that everybody is against you. Nobody is against you! Even if you feel somebody is against you, he is not against you because everybody is concerned with himself, not with you — Rajneesh

She's great company; she plays a mean hand of gin; and I like holding her hand almost as much as yours. What more do I need? — Libby Fischer Hellmann

The Russian general is used to such supplicant behavior. During the war, he ordered his troops to shoot any of their comrades who ran from the Germans, and any Russian village that was thought to have collaborated with the Nazis was burned to the ground. Zhukov is so feared that other Russian generals have been known to tremble in his presence. Patton does not tremble. "He was in full dress uniform much like comic opera and covered in medals," Patton later wrote to Beatrice of Zhukov. "He is short, rather fat and has a prehensile chin like an ape but good blue eyes." As Russian tanks rolled past the reviewing stand, Patton noticed Zhukov gloating over the new Soviet IS-3 model — Bill O'Reilly

I don't really seek out vegetarian spots ... but mainly, I know how to work a menu no matter where I am. — Christie Brinkley