Peter 1 Of Russia Quotes

#1. The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.

Peter Hain

#3. I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

Henri Bergson

#4. Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

Peter Agre

#5. The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Robert Jordan

#6. What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.

Asne Seierstad

#7. Poseidon's trident was also all over the place, since Peter the Great wanted to stress Russia's sea power. I especially like the trident on top of an obelisk
what a great Egyptian/Greek mix up!

Rick Riordan

#8. To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.

Bob Massie

#9. I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

Peter Ustinov

#10. Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.

Peter Kenyon

#11. Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

Henry Kissinger

#12. Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great.

Leon Trotsky

#13. At least we're companions in misfortune

Dodie Smith