257 Quotes About Russian

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

You have become her sadness and live in a different state of mind

They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.

He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.

He who on earth through the Holy Spirit dwells in the love of God will be with the Lord in the other world, too, for love cannot disappear. But lest by reasoning we fall into error, let us humble ourselves according to the word of the Lord: 'Become as little children, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew? (from The Church is One)

The essence of my happiness is fighting for the happiness of others. It’s strange, why is it that in grammar, the word "happiness” can only be singular? That is counter to its meaning, after all. … If it turns necessary to die for the common happiness, then I’m braced to.