Famous Russia Quotes & Sayings

Letting go of rational thought, he surrendered himself to instinct, to the odd quirk within that made him one with machines. The same quirk that had melded him almost effortlessly with his prosthetic limb and perhaps was the reason he'd lost none of his connection with the Force, even though his arm and hand were made of metal. — Karen Miller

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. — Walter Lippmann

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in. — Anne Carson

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive ... — Malcolm X

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar. — Randy Moss

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could morally influence the world. Today, the idea has largely been dismissed, as it must in a mass media society where art's principal social role is to be investment capital, or, in the simplest way, bullion. We still have political art, but we have no effective political art. An artist must be famous to be heard, but as he acquires fame, so his work accumulates 'value' and becomes, ipso-facto, harmless. As far as today's politics is concerned, most art aspires to the condition of Muzak. It provides the background hum for power. — Robert Hughes

Going back to the 1920s, when Stalin ordered the most famous animal breeder in Russia to do it, to make a new race of soldiers for him. His name was Ivanov, — Michael Crichton

The lawyer Fetyukovich would have charged more, but the case has become known all over Russia, they're talking about it in all the newspapers and magazines, so Fetyukovich agreed to come more for the sake of glory, because the case has become so famous. I saw him yesterday. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Growth can be messy. — Marianne Williamson

trying to convert an existing class from concrete to abstract by pushing just the concrete parts down into a new subclass, you might accidentally leave remnants of concrete behavior behind. — Anonymous

Well, they were blind." he murmured. "I see you."
I smiled and nodded. I knew exactly what he meant, "I see you, too. — Heather Mar-Gerrison

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else ... — Barack Obama

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable ... — Edward Gibbon