Russia Quote by Robert K. Massie Download Open image “In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.” — Robert K. Massie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Russia Secrecy Secret
The relationship of Trump to Russia has been reported on, and the activity to change the Republican platform happened openly, and Trump's support for Russian policy - Russia's views of Europe and its views of NATO - have been stated. So it's not like this is secret. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share
There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda. — Charles E. Bohlen Copy Share Image
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no secrets anymore. The governments, the Chinese, the Americans, the Japanese, the Russians, just the governments alone can move right into anybody's… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. — Marcel Pagnol Copy Share Image
“I used to say to myself that happiness and misery depend on ourselves. If you feel unhappy, rise above it and act so that… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Four of my children are daughters, and I've watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women -… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“For twenty years, Peter had been playing with soldiers; first toys, then boys, then grown men. His games had grown from drills involving a… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Charles arrived around eight a.m. with a squadron of Drabants and began riding along the bank at the water’s edge to inspect the men and their positions. Some of the Russians from the force which had been driven back remained on one of the numerous islands in midstream, and they began to fire at the party of Swedish officers across… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share
“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“In January in Northern Russia, everything vanishes beneath a deep blanket of whiteness. Rivers, fields, trees, roads, and houses disappear, and the landscape becomes a white sea of mounds and hollows. On days when the sky is gray, it is hard to see where earth merges with air. On brilliant days when the sky is a rich blue, the sunlight… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share
“Why Lenin triumphed, why Nicholas failed, why Alexandra placed the fate of her son, her husband and his empire in the hands of a… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze,… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.' He was impressed and returned it with a dozen pages of comments,… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share
“She was intelligent, well read, and a shrewd judge of character. During the coup, she had shown determination and courage; once on the throne, she displayed an open mind, willingness to forgive, and a political morality founded on rationality and practical efficiency. She softened imperial presence with a sense of humor and a quick tongue; indeed, with Catherine more than… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share
“Don't worry. Don't worry. The Devil does none of these things. He neither smokes nor drinks nor engages in revelry, and yet he is The Devil. --Father Vasiliev, confessor to the Russian Imperial Family” — Robert K. Massie Copy Share
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales. — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
The only thing which is important to do is to tell about the values I share. It's to say how important liberalization of Russia… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image