Russia Quotes
You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion
Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion
Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.
She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.
Friend, " replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools expect reward on earth, " replied the mujik.
There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.
To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried to escape from Russia, the more deeply Russia swallowed them.
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".
On December 9, 1994, Yeltsin issued a statement ordering the Federal army to execute the disarmament of all illegal armed units in Chechnya, or as they were known locally, the government.
In Russia you learn patience, " said Ivan. "In America you learn action.
She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.
Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.
Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.
Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.
Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.
Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.
The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.
In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.
Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.
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In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer." [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]
We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.
Our listeners asked us:"What is chaos?"We're answering:"We do not comment on economic policy.
My darlings! You can hardly expect an aged crone like me to mar such a lovely event. No, I shall remain here and knit shadows. Now go forth and shine bravely, and think of nothing but love.
Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one example.
He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.
Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.
Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.