Russia Quotes

(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)

Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its struct...

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal...

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been s...

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government supp...

In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.

I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing...

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasant...

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip i...

[P]erhaps the burrows in which our lives were spent really were dark and dirty, and perhaps we ourse...

Democracy, liberalism--those are just words on a signpost, she was right about that. But the reality...

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are oft...

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-an...

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

In actual fact our Russian experience—when I use the word "Russian" I always differentiate it from t...

There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, b...

They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you mi...

You're not content in your position as a factory owner and a rich heiress, you don't believe in your...

The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or...

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half...

The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the tim...

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of on...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these p...

Oh, I'm not saying that alcohol is perfect. It has caused its share of problems. Russia is only one ...

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

The risen Christ! Once morefaith is upon us, a jubilant brief keeningwith respite:Obedience, bitter ...

To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably b...

By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful...

You will never be free as long as there remains one Russian soldier in Poland and your freedom will ...

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

In nothing is the difference between the Americans and the Soviets so marked as in the attitude, not...

It seems to us that one of the deepest divisions between the Russians and the Americans or British, ...

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce...

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

Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools ex...

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it t...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of...

In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow bur...