Quotes About Ivan The Terrible

#1. If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.

Mel Brooks

#2. Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.

Vladimir Sorokin

#3. The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.

Saul David

#5. I always look at that stuff as something that's not a separate entity from the music but a visual representation of the music. I feel like your external appearance should be in harmony with your internal appearance. That's mainly our approach to the visuals.

Taraka Larson

#6. You should be aware that anywhere that a ground rod is installed, that there may be AC voltage/current/frequency in the vicinity of it.

Steven Magee

#7. She is a woman, how can you confuse her for a man?

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#8. One rogue leads another.

Homer

#9. The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible. Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!

Leo Tolstoy

#10. It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none.

Peter Hoeg

#11. She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

Jean Rhys

#12. Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

Phil Robertson

#14. Better immersion than to live untouched.

Tillie Olsen

#15. Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

Billy Graham

#16. Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned on having at his own disposal unexpectedly taken from him.

C.S. Lewis

#17. What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

Ivan Turgenev

#18. Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

#19. I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

Ivan Turgenev

#20. I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.

J. R. Martinez

#21. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

John Henry Jowett