Holy Russia Quotes

#1. That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#2. You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.

J. Michael Straczynski

#3. introducing market norms into social exchanges, as we have seen, violates the social norms and hurts the relationships. Once this type of mistake has been committed, recovering a social relationship is difficult.

Dan Ariely

#4. The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them.

Pete Wentz

#5. Do it. Try it. Fix it.

Sam Walton

#6. I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Chelsea Cain

#7. The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.
In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and
telephones, murder and assassination.

Marcus Sedgwick

#8. And so I, my love, am going to the very center of the earth. I am going to the point that is closest of all to Heaven. If my words are destined to fly all the way to Heaven, then it will happen there. And all my words will be about you.

Evgenij Vodolazkin

#9. One can't live on love alone; and I am so stupid that I can do nothing but think of him.

Sophia Tolstaya

#10. [On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

Dagmar Godowsky

#11. I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

Adam Levine

#12. Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Vladimir Putin

#13. I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

Ne-Yo

#14. To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

H.L. Mencken

#15. Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.

Anais Nin

#16. There's no one that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was myself.

Stu Ungar