Ivan Quotes

25 quotes by 19 authors

Debasement was limited at first to oneâ€™s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border… — Charles P. Kindleberger
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to… — Carolyn Cooke
In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Greatâ€™s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay… — Charles C. Mann
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I… — Anton Chekhov
Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who… — Tony Kornheiser
Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand. — Goran Ivanisevic
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon… — John F. Kennedy
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but… — Leo Tolstoy
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold
ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat… — Jean-Luc Godard
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy
Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me… — Vasily Grossman
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same… — Leo Tolstoy
I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hey! Guy with scary eyes?" Madison called out. "You know what a moose does when someone insults her family?" Ivan raised his eyebrows. "She does… — Rick Riordan
It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh, but Masha, canâ€™t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little… — Catherynne M. Valente
Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the… — Kristin Cashore
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody… — Lois McMaster Bujold

Who Wrote These Ivan Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 25 Ivan Quotes as follows: