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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

[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

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit. — Anton Chekhov

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

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love. — Tobias Wolff

[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

Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation. — Sergei Lavrov

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

I thought they spoke Russian in the Ukraine." "Well, yes. Depends what part of Ukraine. They're not so different languages, the two. — Donna Tartt

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

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick. — Ken Kalfus

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

Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them. — Orlando Figes

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

People were like Russian nesting dolls - versions stacked inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight. — Megan Miranda

A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way. — Maelle Gavet

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

When you're clumsy, even your pubic hairs get in the way." - Traditional Russian proverb — Unknown

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

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. — Manfred Von Richthofen

This is like playing Russian roulette with a Luger rather than a revolver. One bullet, one chamber - and we're pulling the trigger. — Mark Lynas

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

As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full of rocks. — Alan Hinkes

Monday night that Russian forces had dramatically escalated the standoff — Anonymous

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 United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information. — Vladimir Putin

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. — Anton Chekhov

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

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

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action. — Til Schweiger

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 ravens
they 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

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say. — Richard M. Nixon

But there was also a car - for the GDR an expensive car, a Russian Lada - that — Anna Funder

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards. — Philip Sington