Figes Russian Quotes

#1. One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

James Agee

#2. The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.

Orlando Figes

#3. I'm gettin' stacks while you askin' people, 'Do you want some fries with that?'

Big L

#4. Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.

Orlando Figes

#5. The word 'soviet' means 'council' in Russian (there was nothing particularly Communist about it until after 1917).

Orlando Figes

#6. Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.

Orlando Figes

#7. Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

Orlando Figes

#8. Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.

Orlando Figes

#9. In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

J.M. Coetzee

#10. Still I pulled her into a hug, because I knew she let me off the hook on purpose and yeah, I'm a guy and I love my mom. So shoot me. I'm man enough to hug her without feeling like a mama's boy.

Nyrae Dawn

#11. Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

Adrienne Monnier

#12. Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

Christina Perri

#13. Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

Karl Pilkington

#14. It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

P.D. Ouspensky

#15. The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.

Orlando Figes

#16. My mom and dad came into my room, and even though it was really not big enough for all three of us, they lay on either side of the bed with me and we all watched ANTM on the little TV in my room.

John Green