Desire Quote by Agnes Smedley Download Open image “Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.” — Agnes Smedley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Imagination Russia
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Not too many people out there are interested in Russia so much that they really want to watch things about Russia and only about… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that lend themselves… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
It is my greatest desire, I want the people in Russia to be happy and I want our partners around the world to seek… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God . — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic. — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Russia comes from a place of deep resentment against the West, in general, and the United States in particular. They are rapacious, because they… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot,… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty. — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“...we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep other human… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless… Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter. — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
