Russian Quotes

• The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

  

  Wayne Hale
  • Damage
  • Accidents
  • Critical

• A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Treasure
  • Egotism
  • Plot Of LAnd

• complete political and military control of the Russian side.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Political
  • Control
  • Military

• Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

  

  Armand Hammer
  • Language
  • Peaks
  • Himalayan

• It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • World
  • Atheist
  • Russian

• A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been in outer space many times,’ bragged the cosmonaut, ‘but I have never seen any angels.’ The brain surgeon stared in amazement, but then he said, ‘And I have operated on many intelligent brains, but I have never seen a single thought.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Christianity
  • Angels
  • Brains

• Lots of Americans, they do think that yes, Russian hackers are everywhere. Russian hackers are in every fridge, Russian hackers are in every iron and so on and so forth. But this is not true. Those are fake news and this is slander.

  

  Dmitry Peskov
  • Everywhere
  • Russian
  • Hackers

• If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.

  

  Gary Hustwit
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Pride

• I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

  

  Alexander Lebed
  • Future
  • Russian
  • Destitute

• It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis.

  

  Alexander Lebedev
  • Blame
  • Russian
  • Berezovsky

• When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Architect
  • Russian
  • Carpenter

• Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms.

  

  Anatoliy Golitsyn
  • System
  • Mask
  • Impose

• I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

  

  Dean Young
  • Satisfied
  • Description
  • Haiku

• 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
  • Voices
  • Italians
  • Peacocks

• In Russian, ambition is a bad word. It's arrogant.

  

  Eugene Shvidler
  • Ambition
  • Word
  • Russian

• I love my neighborhood: There are Russian families, the artistic community, the gay community, and industry professionals - all ethnicities and ages are represented. That's the kind of neighborhood that I grew up in.

  

  Reiko Aylesworth
  • Community
  • Neighborhood
  • Represented

• Don’t ask for food in a Russian jail cell

  

  Chris Burkard
  • Food
  • Jail
  • Not Ask

• We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Control
  • Government
  • Vladimir Putin

• People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

  

  Charlemagne Palestine
  • Music
  • Bells
  • Asian

• Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Understand
  • Russian
  • Although

• The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Management
  • Jews
  • Treatment

• I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

  

  Kate Thornton
  • Reading
  • Understand
  • Russian

• No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Island
  • Russian
  • Georgian

• Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

  

  Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Writers
  • Sacred
  • Status

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