Russian Quotes

489 Russian quotes by 377 unique authors

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the… — Virginia Woolf
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the… — Linda M. Godwin
The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there. — Garry Kasparov
To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it… — Charles Krauthammer
Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room. — Barack Obama
The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and… — Christoph Waltz
I've played Latin, I've played Italian. And I've played the all-around regular girl. I think the thing about the way I look, is that I… — Lana Parrilla
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a… — Sophia Myles
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam… — Juno Temple
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing… — Callum Keith Rennie
The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way. — Bobby Fischer
There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating… — Vladimir Semichastny
As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network… — George Blake
In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy. — Klaus Fuchs
And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either… — Philippe Perrin
Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew. — Anton Rubinstein
The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle… — Heinrich Himmler
I fully share the Congress's objective of promoting nonproliferation and combating Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missile delivery systems. This… — William J. Clinton
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people,… — Satish Kumar
One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart… — William Eldridge Odom
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. — Anton Chekhov

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