#russian

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract something equally edifying and then move on. That's how to get on in life. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#equality

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. ↗

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#russian #sacrifice #faith

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#russian-poetry #tsvetaeva #wisdom #freedom

Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot bursts into song - fancy that! ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#russian-poetry #inspirational

Nemoj budit odsanjane snove, nek miruje ono čega ne bi. Odveć rano zamoren životom,samo čemer osjećam u sebi. ↗

— Sergei Yesenin

#russian #sadness #sergej-jesenjin #life

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. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#drinking #drunk #liquor #russia #russian

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#bush #children #down #folks #george

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. ↗

— Edward Teller

#had #hydrogen #i #no regrets #now

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#feels #good #inside #russian #sing

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#dangers #russian #warned #were #west