America Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“There’s a bluntness to Russian culture that generally rubs Westerners the wrong way. Gone are the fake niceties and verbal webs of politeness. You…

— Mark Manson

“one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.” The president smiled. “Well, they’ve had enough time to play this game.…

— Tom Clancy

“The Russian did not wave or speak, but he looked directly into Billy's soul with sweet hopefulness, as though Billy might have good news…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We Russians cannot say anything in our own language ... At least we haven't yet.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Don't worry. We do not have to talk about. We are Russian. We do not talk about feelings all the time and no one…

— Andrea Portes

“So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise…

— Doris Lessing

“dangers of her past. She cared about what he provided in an otherwise dangerous world. “Russia is a hard place,” she said quietly, “or…

— Danielle Steel

“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You have disgraced the name of Russia, madam!" shouted the general, "and there are police for that!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sandra was fond of an old Russian saying: When a man causes you a problem, remember: no man, no problem. ”

— S.M. Stirling

“At the first such gathering, I politely sat with them for half an hour, drank some vodka, and even recited a toast about how…

— Elif Batuman

An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House,…

— Ronald Reagan