Muscovite Russia Quotes & Sayings

He might be better considered as an exponent of Tartar financial, military, and political methods, who used the shifting alliances of khans and princes to replace the Tartar yoke with a Muscovite one. In his struggle with the Golden Horde, whose hegemony he definitively rejected after 1480, his closest ally was the Khan of the Crimea, who helped him to attack the autonomy of his fellow Christian principalities to a degree that the Tartars had never attempted. From the Muscovite point of view, which later enjoyed a monopoly, 'Ivan the Great' was the restorer of 'Russian' hegemony. From the viewpoint of the Novgorodians or the Pskovians he was the Antichrist, the destroyer of Russia's best traditions. When he came to write his will, he described himself, as his father had done, as 'the much-sinning slave of God'. — Norman Davies

I want you to use your misplaced acorn for a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again. — Scott Lynch

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God. — Rumi

The priest accepted me, I accepted the priest, so everything went off smoothly. — Andre Gide

By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision — Hugo Gernsback

I'd searched everywhere for this thing called love. I went through life seeking something that would be the ultimate. — Christian Hosoi

As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the people on the front lines, and hence cause them to disregard the value in front-line ideas. — Dean M. Schroeder