Russia Quotes - Page 19

• In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

  Penelope Wilton

  America, House, Spain

  "Unspoken worlds" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• In Russia, they say I'm a Pole, in Poland they call me Russian.

  Konstantin Rokossovsky

  Poland, Call Me

  "Rokossowski - How Much of a Pole?". Book by Wiesław Białkowski, 1994.

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• I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Country, Military, War

  "The matter of my whole life" by Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky, Moscow, Politizdat, 1978.

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• But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods quite sincerely and go the whole way, entirely forgetting all moods preceding and opposite. They do not see any contradiction in such behaviour; or, if they do, they readily find excuses for it.

  Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

  Yield, Opposites, Behaviour

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• [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

  Music, Snow, Infinite

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• Unless Russia is face with an iron fist and strong language, another is in the making. Only one language do they understand - 'How many divisions have you?' ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, War, Tired

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• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Boys, Yield

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Growing Up, America, Sick

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• In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

  Gary Shteyngart

  America, Unions, Way

  "Russian revolution" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2007.

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• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Stills, Ifs

  "Gary Shteyngart: 'Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.

  Vladimir Putin

  Addressing the Valdai Club, October 24, 2014.

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• We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, People, Stills

  Speech at a Moscow concert on the first anniversary of the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation, March 18, 2015.

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• I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Girl, Believe, Police

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• People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.

  Vladimir Putin

  Regret, Heart, People

  Interview with German television channel ARD and ZDF, May 2005.

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• Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

  Vladimir Putin

  Needs, Remember, Wanted

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• Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves

  Vladimir Putin

  Political, Problem, Resolve

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• The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our multinational country, As long as we feel this unity inside us, Russia will be invincible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Different Nationalities, Long

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• Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

  I. F. Stone

  Integrity, Artist, Years

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• We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Democracy, Liberty, Debate

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• Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you're tired of the government snooping into everything you do, Putin's Russia is definitely the place you want to go.

  Bill Maher

  Tired, Government, Want

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• The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Twenties, Dollar Bills, Dollars

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• We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, America, Ukraine

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• The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  Government, Spy, Members

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• There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason.

  Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

  War, Jail, Cold

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• In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

  Edgar Snow

  War, People, Cold

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