Rouble Quotes & Sayings

The most terrible of all things is terror. — William Rounseville Alger

Living on earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time. — Anne Lamott

Fill your life with light! — Seth Adam Smith

I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy. — Karen Finerman

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control. — Gilbert Highet

I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job. — Sarah Ferguson

What, the priest? I don't want him. You haven't got a rouble to spare. I have no sins. God must forgive me without that. He knows how I have suffered.... And if He won't forgive me, I don't care! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever. That is what the Christian faith promises. — Timothy Keller

They waited for the bill. On the borders there were new guerrilla armies. The rouble and the dollar had replaced the pound sterling. The kilometre and the kilogram and the litre were new ways of measuring miles and imperial pounds and fluid ounces. In Zaire, Patrice Lumumba had been murdered on the instruction of the White House. They wanted to expel her son for possessing two bottles of brandy. The measurements made by Curzon College were as outdated as yards and inches. They didn't know what counted. — Imraan Coovadia

The depreciation of the rouble keeps me awake at night, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; people don't know that side of me — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms ... Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do better to worry about extending mans civil rights,' he told me today, 'or at least about not letting the price of beef go up; you'd render your love for mankind more simply and directly that way than with any philosophies.' But I came back at him: 'And without God,' I said, 'you'll hike up the price of beef yourself, if the chance comes your way, and make a rouble on every kopeck. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now. — Donalyn Miller

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble — Dmitry Medvedev

Steven lets go of his humanity with much more relief than fear. It was an awkward burden to carry at the best of times. — Mike Carey

A Russian drunk is a fascinating creature. Even when he has money, he still prefers poison at a rouble forty. And he won't take the change. — Sergei Dovlatov

In America, the government is accountable to the people, not the other way around," says a constitutional law scholar sympathetic to the antiwar movement on the subject of the anonymous police. — Nathan Hill

You can't lead from behind — James Longstreet

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about. — Ben Stein

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?"
"What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said.
"Tomorrow morning," Mabel said. — Libba Bray

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble — Dmitry Medvedev