480 Quotes About Russia

I think I was actually channelling my grandfather,’ she admitted. ‘He lived right out in the woods in this little cottage and he used to scare the life out of me and my older sister with stories about bears and wolves.’ ‘I didn’t know you grew up in a Grimm fairy-tale.’‘Ha, ha – Russia, actually.’‘Ahh, I see: Katia Bialogawski,' he pronounced her name slowly, rolling it over his tongue like a boiled sweet, with all the right inflections. It made her spine tingle.

Atravessar a Rússia significa percorrer onze fusos horários. Quando numa ponta do país é de dia, na outra é de noite. A Rússia é com a alma humana. se tem um lado luminoso, é porque a outra ponta está no escuro. Somos todos feitos desta estranha mistura de fusos horários.

Els nous somnis eren fer-se construir una casa, comprar-se un cotxe bo, plantar un groseller. Es va constatar que la llibertat era la rehabilitació d’aquell esperit petitburgès que a Rússia es tenia el costum de denigrar. La llibertat de Sa Majestat el Consum.

Para a Rússia, a NATO é o principal inimigo. Têm sido feitos exercícios admitindo inclusive o emprego limitado de armas nucleares.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.