- She begged for her life and the life of the baby inside her.
- Shut up!  
- Oh …  he didn't know.

- La vie c’est comme ça tout le temps ? Ou c’est seulement quand on est petit ?
- ... C’est comme ça tout le temps.  

My army is not designed for this kind of fighting. Yesterday, yet again I had to promote 25 sergeants to replace the officers shot down by the sharpshooters.

You won't give up the river bank. I don't care if you lost half your men. Lose the other half. Lose yourself.

You've promised people a victory I can't deliver. I don't stand a chance against this man.

- In the forest, the wolf lives for three years and the donkey for nine.
- That must be a proverb from the Urals, it makes no sense to me.
- The donkey lives longer because he's more useful.
- There aren't any donkeys in the forest, you made it up.

Nobody gives a shit about the telephone guys.

Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship, something you don't have and want to appropriate. In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love.

On this day, September 20th 1942, a young shepherd boy from the Urals arrived in the city of Stalingrad on the banks of the Volga.

Yeah, you gave me the wrong suitcase. Uh-huh. Yes, it's a black Samsonite. Uh-huh. Ok, well don't you think that the Samsonite people, in some crazy scheme in order to make a profit, MADE MORE THAN ONE BLACK SUITCASE?

- I'm sorry, sir, you're gonna have to check that.
- I got it.
- No, I'm sorry, that bag won't fit.
- No, no, I'm not - hey, I'm not checking my bag, okay?
- There's no need to raise your voice, sir.
- I'm not raising my voice. THIS WOULD BE RAISING MY VOICE TO YOU, okay? I don't want to check my bag, okay? And, by the way, your airline? You SUCK at checking bags, okay, because I already did that once and you lost it, and then I had everything screwed up very badly for me, okay?
- Well, I can assure you that your bag will be placed safely below deck with the other luggage...
- Oh, yeah? How do you know my bag will be safe below with the other luggage? Huh? Are you physically going to take my bag and put it beneath the plane? Are you going to go right now outside, with the guys with the earmuffs, and go put it in there?
- No...
- No? Okay, then shut your piehole and listen to me when I say that I am FINISHED with the checking-of-the-bags CONVERSATION.