Quotes About Sergei

#1. We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system which would be efficient in protecting the Euro-Atlantic region from threats coming outside this region.

Sergei Lavrov

#2. The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

Sergei Lavrov

#3. I very much hope that the United States will finally ... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

Sergei Lavrov

#4. The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise - Foma

Sergei Lukyanenko

#5. You really don't get how amazing you are, do you? Well let me make it really clear for you - so amazing that I would risk everything, just to let you know. Just to tell you I love you, Sergei. I love you. I love you more than my life

Charlotte Stein

#6. Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

Craig Kilborn

#7. You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

Sergei Lavrov

#8. Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

Sergei Prokofiev

#9. My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

Sergei Bubka

#10. And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.

Sergei Bubka

#11. From somewhere in the distance, we heard a rolling crack of thunder.
"He's coming," moaned one of the Inferni. "Oh, Saints, he's coming."
"He'll kill us all," whispered Sergei.
"If we're lucky," replied Zoya.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

Sergei Parajanov

#13. I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches.

Sergei Bubka

#14. I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

Sergei Bubka

#15. If I was going to shoot you, we wouldn't be having this conversation. What's your name?" The Italian lifted his head enough to meet Sergei's gaze. "Who wants to know?" Sergei rolled his eyes. "The guy who's going to decide whether you wake up tomorrow in a hospital, a jail cell, or a morgue." He

L.A. Witt

#16. We are convinced that the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations.

Sergei Lavrov

#17. NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.

Sergei Lavrov

#18. Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time
you don't get a second chance!

Sergei Bongart

#19. I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea ... I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.

Sergei Prokofiev

#20. Don't think love has sizes. It either is or isn't

Sergei Dovlatov

#21. NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

Sergei Lavrov

#22. It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

Sergei Eisenstein

#23. That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#24. If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

Sergei Lavrov

#25. We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.

Sergei Lavrov

#26. We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

Sergei Lavrov

#27. Whatever you want, Sergei. Mike meant what he said beyond the immediate context, but found he was unable to put it into words. They wouldn't come. They had no form. Whatever it was didn't even have a tangible emotion to be labeled.

Aleksandr Voinov

#28. We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.

Sergei Lavrov

#29. Whoever tries to imitate me is lost,

Sergei Parajanov

#30. Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his music. Others applied pepper, seasoned the dishes more and more highly, till all healthy appetites were sick and until the music was nothing but pepper.

Sergei Prokofiev

#31. Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#32. On September 11, 2001, Russia's then-president, Vladimir Putin, called U.S. President George W. Bush - making Putin the first international leader to speak with Bush after the attacks.

Sergei Lavrov

#33. We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.

Sergei Lavrov

#34. The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

Sergei Lavrov

#35. Russia and the U.S. have unique experience in ensuring the safety and security of nuclear material.

Sergei Lavrov

#36. Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

Sergei Lavrov

#37. The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

Sergei Korolev

#38. And that, Pavel, is why you shouldn't use magic for every tiny little thing. Where you can put your trust in science, that's what you should do.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#39. Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#40. But I'm quite sure of one thing: If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#41. Iran will be the most checked and inspected country if the principles agreed in Lausanne are transferred into the language of practical agreements.

Sergei Lavrov

#42. What kind of monster are you anyway? You should be more humane, Gennady!"
"I was humane when I was alive," said the vampire.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#43. When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya.

Sergei Lavrov

#44. There is no such thing as an unsolvable problem.

Sergei Korolev

#45. For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#46. What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world - not against the whole world.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#47. Others are not born bad or good ... and neither are people, by the way.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#48. People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

Sergei Bubka

#49. I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Sergei Bubka

#50. Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young.

Sergei Yesenin

#51. If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

Sergei Dovlatov

#52. What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference.

Sergei Lavrov

#53. No point in arguing. But of course I argued.

Sergei Dovlatov

#54. Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide ... "
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#55. The university campus was in the old part of town. The combination of water and stone creates a special, majestic atmosphere there. It's hard to be a sluggard under those circumstances, but I managed.

Sergei Dovlatov

#56. There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Sergei Prokofiev

#57. Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Sergei Bongart

#58. You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.

Sergei Lavrov

#59. Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.

Sergei Lavrov

#60. Always keep your best work.

Sergei Bongart

#61. We were searching for ourselves in each other.

Sergei Parajanov

#62. Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security.

Sergei Ivanov

#63. The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.

Sergei Bubka

#64. Of course, the psychological part, the tactics, is very important.

Sergei Bubka

#65. The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the same way: Right color, right value, in right spot. There are no prescriptions.

Sergei Bongart

#66. In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And we
have no right to do that - we never have had, not since the creation of the world.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#67. To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#68. We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian Federation became what it is - you know, with no borders, with no budget, no money, and with huge problems starting with lack of food and so on and so forth.

Sergei Lavrov

#69. I hope that the United States would cooperate with the partners to reduce its debt. The debt is a problem. The debt is with you, but unfortunately, the debt is not only with you but with us and with the rest of the world because we all, one way or another, are dependent on the dollar.

Sergei Lavrov

#70. There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

Sergei Lavrov

#71. Why should I waste my imagination on myself? - SERGEI DIAGHILEV

Clive James

#72. Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Sergei Lavrov

#73. I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#74. All we can do is try not to fall.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#75. This one swears like a trooper-- he's a bad boy.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#76. The day was cold but sunny. The city was decorated with holiday flags.

Sergei Dovlatov

#77. Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds.

Sergei Lavrov

#78. We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.

Sergei Ivanov

#79. Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives.

Sergei Lavrov

#80. Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Sergei Lavrov

#81. When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms.

Sergei Lavrov

#82. We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

Sergei Bubka

#83. The world was horrible. But life continued. What is more, life's usual proportions stayed the same. The ratio of good and evil, grief and happiness, remained unchanged.

Sergei Dovlatov

#84. I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.

Sergei Lavrov

#85. I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things ... We find little joy in that, but there are no painful sensations. We have lived through tougher times.

Sergei Lavrov

#86. The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

#87. Sir Kenneth MacMillan's version of 'Romeo and Juliet' is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev's breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.

Sascha Radetsky

#88. Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.

Sergei Yesenin

#89. The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#90. A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#91. We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable development of Ukraine but to sign a federal agreement.

Sergei Lavrov

#92. Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.

Sergei Lavrov

#93. There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

Sergei Dovlatov

#94. We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Sergei Lavrov

#95. I began with track and field because this is what I know.

Sergei Bubka

#96. Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create ... technique will give way to expression!

Sergei Bongart

#97. The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

John L. Phillips

#98. Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.

Sergei Diaghilev

#99. If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.

Sergei Lavrov

#100. Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

Sergei Eisenstein