Quotes About Nicholas Ii

#1. 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

#2. There was a happy irony in the first cousin of the autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (with whom George bore a striking resemblance) furthering British democracy.

Paul Ham

#3. Read the book, Shadow over the Winter Palace," Sam Hugh explained. "It's about the Russian Czar Nicholas II and his crazy wife." Of course, Santos

Anita Paddock

#4. The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

Wilhelm II

#5. That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.

Brother Lawrence

#6. I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

Sarah Miller

#7. I am just a plain, common man.

Nicholas II Of Russia

#8. For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.

Sarah Miller

#10. I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

Ester Dean

#11. All around me is cowardice and deceit.

Nicholas II Of Russia

#12. There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Horace

#13. I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

Nicholas II Of Russia

#14. My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late
our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

Sarah Miller

#15. "No comment" is a comment.

George Carlin

#16. I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

Nicholas II

#17. Lord, save Russia and bring her peace.

Nicholas II Of Russia

#18. I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.

Nicholas II Of Russia

#19. He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him

Nalini Singh

#20. Everyone's work is equally important.

Jenny Holzer

#21. Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#22. There is no justice among men.

Nicholas II

#23. By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract, ... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.

John Maynard Keynes