33 Quotes About Russians

When a presidential candidate is publicly requesting help from the Russians, you know that there is something seriously going wrong in the USA.

Then do that again, over and over, until I'm pleased.

He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free. And accepting that ride can only lead to hell.

No one knows how many Russians in all fled the homeland. Perhaps one million, perhaps many more. We are interested here in seventeen, the senior Romanovs, the grand dukes and grand duchesses who escaped the revolution.

The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks, forcibly board the peaceful habitat and claim it as captured territory. To the hard-core Soviet mind-set, the American government was an unstable combination of cowboys and gangsters, unpredictable and capable of any insane action. The cosmonauts would have to be armed against outrageous aggression.

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional

...в отелях и гостиницах англичане не делают никаких уступок и ведут себя как дома. В нумере не сидят, а либо пишут письма, либо читают, либо сидят в салонах, слушают музыку и т.д. А мы вечно думаем, что на нас смотрят, а потому вечно стесняемся, думаем, что не так ступил, не так сказал, заискиваем даже у прислуги.А.С. Суворин, русский журналист, издатель, писатель, театральный критик и драматург

But Honeybun,' I would counter, 'you can't have real love without respect.' 'That is not true in Russia. You either love or you respect. You can not do both.' 'How do you mean?' 'With love you have jealousy, possessiveness, and many other emotions and passions which make respect impossible. We know that in Russia, therefore we accept it.

Русские люди вообще широкие люди, Авдотья Романовна, широкие, как их земля, и черезвычайно склонны к фантастическому, к беспорядочному; но беда быть широким без особенной гениальности.