Slavic Peoples Quotes

#1. Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

Tom Robbins

#2. She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

Natalie Standiford

#3. Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem an eerie, and disconcerting, premonition.

A.B. Shepherd

#4. The choice is his [Saddam Hussein's], and if he does not disarm, the United States of America will lead a coalition and disarm him in the name of Peace.

George W. Bush

#5. One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Erich Fromm

#6. Swords are no good against the ironmen, unless the men who wield them know how to walk on water.

George R R Martin

#7. According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cooke
that Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their lives
were so hard that they didn't really know what happiness was anyway.

David Byrne

#8. Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Mabel Osgood Wright

#9. Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.

Julia Karr

#10. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

Friedrich Nietzsche