Quotes About Imperial Russia

#1. Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.

Marc Chagall

#2. Like many musicians, I don't look back much ... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

Tony Levin

#3. However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#4. There aren't nearly enough worldly mansions for the kind folks who deserve them.

Bryant A. Loney

#5. But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#6. War has no winners and peace, no losers

Ashok Kallarakkal

#7. It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

John Amery

#8. Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.

Saul David

#9. Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.

Robert Laxalt

#10. I have found my voice again and the art of using it ...

Colette

#11. The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Madame De Stael

#12. I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

Ridley Scott

#13. That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.

Tom Golisano

#14. Have you ever stopped to really consider how many people we share the universe with? I mean, really. I did the other day, and it made me feel smaller than an ant.

Claire Contreras

#15. The Park?" Gus asked skeptically, following him out of Kali's building and across the empty street. "The place with the homicidal poodle pack and creepy hanging goddess?

Tui T. Sutherland

#16. Are you planning on asking my daughter's permission to ravish me as I deserve? If so, please take heed when she informs you that I am lonely and need a woman in my life. She's been nagging me for the last five years to find one."
"In your dreams, bat boy.

Katie MacAlister

#17. Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Alexander Herzen

#18. Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Philip Larkin

#19. A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile.

Debasish Mridha