480 Quotes About Russia

I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion

Ay, nenas, qué puñetera es la guerra... Vista desde nuestros ojos, con los ojos de mujer... Es por eso que no nos preguntan.

The same rationale applied to the Red Army: there was almost no limit to the number of lives that the Stalinist regime was willing to expend to achieve its goals. That was the logic of a system built on revolutionary imperatives: the individual counted for nothing. In western armies strategic decisions were generally reached by calculating the gains to be made by a manoeuvre against the likely cost in casualties. In the Red Army no such calculations were ever really made.

The Russians have a tradition in which every war is a 'total war'. ... When the decision has been taken to start a war, there is no feeling for the fact that there can be limits and should be limits how this war is conducted." The Russians call this situation bespredel, which literally means "without limits". It implies torture, cruelty, and gratuitous acts of violence which remain, as a rule, unpunished.

Russia as an umpire is not very different from Russia as an empire.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.

In a snow-white field near Moscow, I want you above all to hear how sad my living voice is.

Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers.[Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may help people adapt to realities that otherwise make them want to curl up and die. Parsons, who called her book "Dying Unneeded", argued that Russians were dying early because they had nothing and no one to live for.