Gentle Quote by Lincoln Steffens Download Open image “The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.” — Lincoln Steffens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gentle People Russian Said Sober
“In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly… — Richelle Mead Copy Share
The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Russian women are very friendly with makeup, almost too friendly sometimes. — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences… — Owen Matthews Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God . — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering,… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“I want these gentle hands... and this kind smile... although I should not want such a thing.” — Matsuri Hino, Vampire Knight Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light. — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
“Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be… — Dawud Wharnsby Ali Copy Share Image
