Quotes About Russian

Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Sermon on the Mount.

Quién, de los oficiales de entonces, puede negar que te dé a las mujeres rusas la mejor y más valiosa recompensa?

That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.

That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so OK.

So, said the Russian, after regaining is composure, the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.

it's probably the Russian military, in which you're allowed to smile only when you shoot someone or successfully invade another country.

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window.

Cocaine did him in, or morphine—did him in, they say, after he fell from an aeroplane somewhere in the marshes around Novgorod.

And I believe the Russian people will soon be drawn to the south, to the sea and the sun.

Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn't a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?

History alone – the sum of empirically discoverable data – held the key to the mystery of why what happened happened as it did and not otherwise; and only history, consequently, could throw light on the fundamental ethical problems which obsessed him as they did every Russian thinker in the nineteenth century.

In days of doubt, in days of sad brooding on my country's fate, thou alone art my rod and my staff—mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not to fall into despair, seeing all that happens at home? Yet who can think that such a tongue is not given to a great people?

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering.

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.

All Russian people know who I am. So I use this to the good because, you know, it's really hard to shut my mouth off because... I'm too bright, and I'm too many years visible to everyone.

Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

And then with an expansive Russian song They returned home to town.

Therefore I come to the inevitable conclusion that it is now that we must give the most decisive and merciless battle to the obscurantist clergy and crush its resistance with such cruelty that they won't forget it for several decades.17 On only one point was Lenin sensitive: he feared an anti-Semitic backlash if Jews were seen to be running this "pogrom in reverse" against Russian Christians, so an ethnic Russian had to be nominally in charge of crushing the Church.

Everything might have come right in the course of time. Russian life could have been pulled into order. . . . What bitch woke up Lenin? Who couldn't bear the child sleeping? There is no precise answer to this question. . . . Anyway, he himself probably didn't know, although his supply of vengeance never dried up. . . .

The Bolsheviks attacked the Russian state not because it was oppressive but because it was weak.