480 Quotes About Russia

Aqui, muito se brincou, traduzindo o CCCP (União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas), estampado na camisa da seleção de futebol, como "Camarada, Cuidado Com Pelé".

Умом Россию не понять, Аршином общим не измерить. У ней особенная стать, В Россию можно только верить!Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet, 1803–1873You will not grasp her with your mind Or cover with a common label, For Russia is one of a kind — Believe in her, if you are able... translated by Anatoly Liberman, published in "Russian Life in the United States

A need to wander was in most Russians' blood, particularly the less well-off classes, and without positions, property, and status to fetter them, they would often pack a bundle of a few clothes and minimum food and set off on a week's, a a few clothes and minimum food and set off on a week's, a month's, a year's pilgrimage from monastery to town, or just traversing the vast empty spaces of their country, stopping as they chose, going where they willed.

A high-level government agent was arrested today for selling secrets to Russia. They now have all of the exact locations of our back-to-school headquarters.

Gay people represent art. Start allowing gay people to be beaten in the street then you allow art to be beaten in the street. History has taught us where that leads.

Когда я начинаю думать о старой, канувшей в вечность, России, то меня больше всего умиляет одна вещь: до чего это была богатая, изобильная, роскошная страна, если последних три года повального, всеобщего, равного, тайного и явного грабежа - все-таки не могут истощить всех накопленных старой Россией богатств. Только теперь начинаешь удивляться и разводить руками: - Да, что ж это за хозяин такой был, у которого даже после смерти его - сколько не тащат, все растащить не могут...

За что они Россию так?..

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the blessed birth of an only son should have proved the mortal blow. Even as the saluting cannons boomed and the flags waved, Fate had prepared a terrible story. Along with the lost battles and sunken ships, the bombs, the revolutionaries and their plots, the strikes and revolts, Imperial Russia was toppled by a tiny defect in the body of a little boy.