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Quotes About Russia

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.
~ John Bright
the tsars of the Romanov family dynasty began a lengthy rule of Muscovy-Russia from 1613 until 1917.
~ John D. Woodbridge
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
~ Maria Sharapova
The world is such a train that has engines at both ends, the USA drives the front side while Russia operates the backside, and Western Europe performs as a ticket collector of that endless journey towards the mirage; all other states are passengers of that
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I ended up taking a literature class, too, about the nineteenth-century novel and the city in Russia, England, and France. The professor often talked about the inadequacy of published translations, reading us passages from novels in French and Russian, to show how bad the translations were. I didn't understand anything he said in French or Russian, so I preferred the translations.
~ Elif Batuman
I ended up taking a literature class, too, about the nineteenth-century novel and the city in Russia, England, and France. The professor often talked about the inadequacy of published translations, reading us passages from novels in French and Russian, to show how bad the translations were. I didn't understand anything he said in French or Russian, so I preferred the translations.
~ Elif Batuman
The Eastern Question, too, was something I had heard of: like "the Woman Question," it turned up in nineteenth-century novels. The Eastern Question was essentially, "How do we divide up all the Ottomans' stuff?" It wasn't so different from the Woman Question, which was about whether women could have jobs and money. The things some people considered a "question." If you read stuff like that all your life, it would make you hate Russia.
~ Elif Batuman
But I was in Russia because I had looked at the literatures of the world and made a choice.
~ Elif Batuman
All Russia is our orchard.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Since the topic of Russia and Ukraine has become the news main, the duffers and idlers in other countries will discuss about the subject same just to drain their energy in vain talk forgetting about their own life pain. Each of them will senselessly claim to have all knowledge about the foreign ground plain. But a person who would refrain from all such worthless debate and discussion is a sane.
~ Anuj Somany
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
~ Arlen Specter
Russia's first major intervention began in 1768, when Catherine the Great went to war with the Ottomans, and Count Alexei Orlov, the brother of her lover Grigory, sailed the Baltic fleet through the Strait of Gibraltar to rally rebellions in the Mediterranean.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about 20 years.
~ Masha Gessen
St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
~ Valentina Matviyenko
Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers.
~ Sergei Lavrov
Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.
~ Nigel Farage
Were it my choice, I would not vote for Russia to hold the Winter Olympics or the Summer Olympics. But it's not my choice.
~ Mitt Romney
Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before.
~ Sebastian Coe
I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.
~ Jessie Buckley
Full disclosure: the Russians did not tell Hillary Clinton, 'Don't go to Wisconsin.'
~ Ed Schultz
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
~ John Wayne
While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?
~ Pat Buchanan
When it comes to the Russia investigation, President Trump would be wise to review Scandal 101: Plausible deniability is your friend.
~ Asha Rangappa
I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship... is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth.
~ Henry Paulson