Distance Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming.…

— Rudyard Kipling

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian…

— Anton Chekhov

In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great…

— Anton Chekhov

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

— Leon Panetta

I think the Russian people have a coldness on them, and I think its all about discipline and just getting the work done. There…

— Florian Munteanu

“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

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would…

— Joseph de Maistre

President Putin will run again in the 2018 election. He wants to be the czar of this new Russian empire that he is rebuilding.…

— Alexei Navalny

So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

In spite of the fact that Russian is very tough, I think that I can find enough strength in myself to learn it.

— Hulk

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are…

— Merab Mamardashvili