Versts Quotes

#1. Hundreds of versts of desolate, monotonous, sun-parched steppe cannot bring on the depression induced by one man who sits and talks, and gives no sign of ever going.

Anton Chekhov

#2. As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.

Farley Mowat

#3. There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.

Basith

#4. I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

Camryn Manheim

#5. I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#6. As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.

Jay Neugeboren

#7. With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

Yasmin Mogahed

#8. You're better than the mountains, you know. Murmured against Vadim's lips.

Aleksandr Voinov