Moscow Quotes

• The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

  Bob Schaffer

  Pride, Eyebrows, Should

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• Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Inspiration, Love Is, Huge

  "Natalia Vodianova: Moscow's poster girl". Interview with Deborah Rivers, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

  Alexander Pushkin

  Heart, Sound, Riches

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Russia, Rhythm Of Life, Air

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Heart, Somewhere Else, Feelings

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• We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Fighting, Determined, Surrender

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• To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

  Anton Chekhov

  "The Three Sisters". Play by Anton Chekhov, Act II, 1901.

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• I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

  Jeremy Northam

  Spy, Realizing, Mets

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• Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Cities, Suffering

  "Three Years". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Paris, Budapest

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• I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Talking, Two, Different

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• A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Country, People, Population

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

  John Mica

  Taken, Mumbai, London

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• You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

  Alexander Lebed

  Kids, Russia, Years

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• To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

  Ralph Boston

  Dog, Years, Pet

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• I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Eugenics, Feelings, Vengeance

  "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim Fest, p. 171, 1999.

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• I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Mistake, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

  Earl Browder

  Struggle, Communist Leaders, Two

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• Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smoldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment, Moscow is less than twenty miles away. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Passion, Ambition, Fire

  "Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir".

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• In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

  Roman Abramovich

  Kids, Russia, Play

  "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Reading, Paris, People

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• The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Energy, Load

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• The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  War, Eras, Firsts

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• My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Home, Plans

  Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

  Anton Chekhov

  Lonely, Rooms, Stranger

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1930). “The plays of Anton Tchekov: pref. by Eva Le Gallienne”

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