257 Quotes About Russian
- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
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- Author Anton Chekhov
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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- Author Anna Akhmatova
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I do not count mortal daysUnder the roof of a chilled empty building,I'm reading the Apostles' words,Words of Psalm-singer I am reading.Sleet is fluffy, and stars turn blue,And more marvelous is each meeting --And in the Bible a leafOn Song of Songs is sitting.
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- Author Victor Robert Lee
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Sounds like the rival is a good soldier, Cono said. Like the Russians say, a bad soldier is one who doesn't try to become a general.
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- Author Ron Garan
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The ISS would not be the incredibly capable orbiting research facility it is today without either Russians or Americans, just as it couldn't have been built without the Canadian arm used in its construction.
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- Author Nikolai Gogol
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You can always tell a pig by its grunt.
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- Author Enock Maregesi
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Sawa. Кто Вы, где Вы от, и почему Вы в Москве?
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- Author Zamyatin Yevgeny
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And Homo sapiens only then becomes man in the complete sense of the word, when his punctuation includes no question marks, only exclamation points, commas, and periods. And you, being children, may swallow without crying all the bitter things I am to give you only if they be coated with the syrup of adventures.
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- Author Magnus Flyte
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Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian.
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