257 Quotes About Russian

An as it's going often at love's breaking,The ghost of first days came again to us,The silver willow through window then stretched in,The silver beauty of her gentle branches.The bird began to sing the song of light and pleasureTo us, who fears to lift looks from the earth,Who are so lofty, bitter and intense,About days when we were saved together.

I cannot emphasize it too strongly that our gifts-whether they consist in wealth, or in the ability to sing, to paint, to build, or to count-are not given unto us to be used for our pleasure merely, or as means of our advancement, weather social or intellectual. But they are given unto us that we may use them for helping those who need help.

Все человеческие ошибки суть нетерпение, преждевременный отказ от методичности, мнимая сосредоточенность на мнимом деле.

Есть два главных человеческих греха, из которых вытекают все прочие: нетерпение и небрежность. Из-за нетерпения люди изгнаны из рая, из-за небрежности они не возвращаются туда. А может быть, есть только один главный грех: нетерпение. Из-за нетерпения изгнаны, из-за нетерпения не возвращаются.

Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.

Oh, this was a cold dayIn Peter's wonderful town!The shadow grew dense, and the sundownLike purple fire lay.Let him not want my eyes fairProphetic and never-changingAll life long verse he'll be catching -My conceited lips' empty prayer.

Did not scold me, did not praise me,Like friends and like enemies.Only left his soul to meAnd then said, "Now keep in peace."And one thing worries me so:If this moment he will die,God's archangel will come to meFor his soul from the sky.How then will I hide her so,How to hide it from God's eyes?She, the soul, that cries and sings soMust be in His paradise.

Everyone reacted differently to being spoken to in a language they didn't understand. Katya got quiet and scared. Ivan leaned forward with an amused expression. Grisha narrowed his eyes and nodded in a manner suggesting the dawn of comprehension. Boris, a bearded doctoral student, rifled guiltily through his notes like someone having a nightmare that he was already supposed to speak Russian.

Not thus, from cursed lightness having disembarked,I look with worry on the chambers dark?Already used to ringing high and raw,Already judged not by the earthly law,I, like a criminal, am being drawn alongTo place of shame and execution long.I see the glorious city, and the voice most dear,As though there is no secret grave to fear,Where day and night, in heat and in cold bent,I must await the Final Judgment...