Hope Quote by John Steinbeck

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If you knew when your last day of life was going to be, it was the best place to spend your last night on…

— Kenneth Eade

“She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.”

— John le Carré

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I try not to think of the future. What we have now is good. Any mlre of this is just a bonus." (Sergei)”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it. VLADIMIR”

— Samuel Beckett

“Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to…

— Fareed Zakaria

“mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We…

— Daniel Silva

“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday, he will…

— Anton Checkov