Quotes by Russian Authors - Page 4

To love one's neighbors to love one's enemies to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
Leo Tolstoy
I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all destroy all stop the inevitable and express the inexpressible.
Nina Voronel
A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great
From a shy timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
Anna Dostoevsky
The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.
Simeon Strunsky
History is a stern judge.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Andrei Voznesensky
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Change is what people fear most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir Lenin
Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.
Vladimir Zworykin
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage both as a whole and separately in each country in each government in each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.
Russian proverb
Christianity with its doctrine of humility of forgiveness of love is incompatible with the state with its haughtiness its violence its punishment its wars.
Leo Tolstoy
Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
Igor Stravinsky
If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.
Russian proverb
Man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
Russian saying
Don't buy the house buy the neighborhood.
Russian proverb
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.
M. P. Moussorgsky
Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
Leo Tolstoy
Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.
Modest Mussorgsky
Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance poise and real courage.
Elie Metchnikoff
Victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.
Nicholas Berdyaev
Men show their superiority inside animals outside.
Russian proverb
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
Nikita Khrushchev
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
Maxim Gorky
Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
Igor Stravinsky
By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Madame Swetchine
This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.
Rose Chernin
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
Olga Ilyin
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov
No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.
Russian proverb
Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The idea came to me that I was am and will be but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.
Nina Berberova
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
Leo Tolstoy
Don't be sad don't be angry if life deceives you! Submit to your grief your time for joy will come believe me.
Aleksandr Pushkin
When necessity speaks it demands.
Russian proverb
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
Vasily Grossman
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
Anton Chekhov
Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.
Nikolai Gogol
People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.
Leo Tolstoy
Who grins in official circumstances?
Vladimir Nabokov
Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf accidents and possibilities.
Vladimir Nabokov
Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.
Leo Tolstoy
He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.
Leo Tolstoy
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin
he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.
Leo Tolstoy