Chechen Quotes

#1. And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there.

Aleksandr Lebed

#2. 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.

Boris Yeltsin

#3. We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.

Aslan Maskhadov

#4. I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

Anthony Marra

#5. As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

Vladislav Surkov

#6. I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.

Akhmad Kadyrov

#7. Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

Anthony Marra

#8. She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns

Anthony Marra

#9. The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Anthony Marra

#10. I'm like a decathlete without the body.

David Hornsby

#11. I've just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we - then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.

Betty Wright

#12. Jeremy, when I first met you, you filled a void in my life - a physical need - in a fun and exciting way. But the more I spend time with you, especially like last night, where I can talk to you and get to know you, the more I realize you fill up the emptiness in my heart too.

E.M. Lynley

#13. I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Charles De Lint

#14. The last time I saw a blonde with red streaks in her hair she was laying on Oscar Pistorius' bathroom floor,

Joan Rivers

#15. Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

Don Meyer

#16. ...Actually all women are psychic. When a man cheats on a woman and lies to her, she already knows; she just lies to herself.

Josefina Lopez

#17. You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

Brad Pitt

#18. His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.

Elizabeth Morgan

#19. The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

Larry Holmes

#20. These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-"
"That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment

Gail Giles

#21. If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

Phillip C. McGraw