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After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. — Marina Tsvetaeva
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
— Carroll Quigley
For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew? (from The Church is One) — Aleksey Khomiakov
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
A certain wise man once said that God didn't play dice with the universe, but that man was wrong. Sometimes I think He must even try Russian roulette.
— Daina Chaviano
Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more.
— Robert Black
The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
— Chris Matthews
I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.
— Ryan Reynolds
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[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
— Viktor Korchnoi
Better not sit on a hedgehog if you're naked." ~ Russian Author Mikhail Bulgakov ~ The White Guard 1925
— T.C. Donivan
A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change.
— Sergei Dovlatov
Peter the Great imagined himself as a Russian Louis XIV
— Jennifer Homans
I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I'm in the States I feel at home, too.
— Dasha Zhukova
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
— Charles Bukowski
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
— Michael Ealy
I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
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[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
— Dagmar Godowsky
Is there a living man in the country?" cried the Russian hero. I cry the same, though I am not a hero, and no one answers my cry.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
— Kate Beckinsale
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
— Herbie Mann
I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify').
— Randi Minetor
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
— Timur Bekmambetov
The biggest Russian problem - not all Russian jerks have moved to the US and UK yet.
— Evgeni Kostitsyn
The system set up by F.I.D.E ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion ... The Russians arranged it that way.
— Bobby Fischer
Yes, one day perhaps the leading intellects of Russia and of Europe will study the psychology of Russian crime, for the subject is worth it. But
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When the Russian kettlebell meets an American steak, it is a beautiful thing.
— Pavel Tsatsouline
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
— George F. Kennan
Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.
— Fyodor Tyutchev
Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
— Orlando Figes
You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate.
— Jonas Jonasson
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
— Carine Roitfeld
It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people
— Aslan Maskhadov
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
— David Bezmozgis
She's a russian roulette queen, gambling in love with her heart and life on the line
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.
— Garry Kasparov
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
— Salman Rushdie
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional
— Russian, Unknown
The Russian Dolls would sue a snowman for sexual harassment if they thought the sun would stay away.
— Jonathan Dunne
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
— Edward Teller
The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.
— Eleanor Herman
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For dynamic energy, driving force, and discipline, the Russian Communist Party is unique the world over, perhaps even throughout history.
— Louis Fischer
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
— Wernher Von Braun
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
— Yulia Tymoshenko
Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.
— Lindsey Graham
I have no relationship with the Russian government at all.
— Edward Snowden
Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book
— Blue Balliett
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
— Manfred Von Richthofen
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
— Karl Liebknecht
Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet." And that was the good news.
— Deborah Blake
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes.
— Paullina Simons
Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.
— M T Anderson
The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
— Andrey Illarionov
I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.
— Joe Bastianich
The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay
— Goronwy Rees
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general.
— Victor Robert Lee
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
— Andrei Platonov
How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.
— Marina Tsvetaeva
I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,
— Johnny Weir
It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.
— Alisher Usmanov
When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.
— Robert Ley
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
— Ian Frazier
We live without power of law, like flocks of ravensthey come and sweep over the land. — Alexander Pushkin
Always live the adventure.
— Christopher J. Holcroft
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.
— Nora Roberts
The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.
— Merab Mamardashvili
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
— Karl Liebknecht
Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.
— Semen Frank
could tell that one of the Russian proverbs he loved was on the way. 'The only place with free cheese is a mousetrap
— A.D. Miller
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
— Kevin J. Anderson
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
You're the Baba Yaga?" He gazed at her in disbelief. "But the Baba Yaga is an ugly old crone, and you're, you're... not!
— Deborah Blake
The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back
— Aldous Huxley
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
— Garry Kasparov
I'm five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.
— Jennifer Niven
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.
— Natalie Standiford
