Russian Quotes

489 Russian quotes by 377 unique authors

We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk… — Anatoly Berezovoy
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious… — Henry A. Kissinger
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov
We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide… — Vladimir Putin
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent. — Natalia Makarova
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction. — Delmore Schwartz
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first… — George Polya
Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade… — Leo Szilard
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The… — Mikhail Gorbachev
We’re every age at once and tucked inside ourselves like Russian nesting dolls. My mother is an 8 year old girl. My grandson is a… — George Watsky
America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain… — James Norwood Pratt
I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Everyone fixes up their face if it’s not ideal, you know? That’s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have… — Valeria Lukyanova
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our… — Yulia Tymoshenko
Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian. — Horatio Nelson
The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan Islamic… — David Frum
An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk… — Ronald Reagan
The Russian Federation has a growing Muslim minority, which is causing cultural and religious clashes. This is similar to mass immigration of Mexicans to America,… — David Duke
If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian… — Mikhail Saakashvili
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai Berdyaev
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth
For a Russian to be chivalrous with an American is a spiritual impossibility, a conradiction in terms. — Kurt Vonnegut
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. — Joseph de Maistre
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood… — Ann Beattie

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377 authors contributed a total of 489 Russian Quotes, led by these top contributors: