Top 1200 Russian Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Many people at different levels of the Russian government are open to crypto-currencies.

Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

I think I will only marry a Russian, well, I mean, a girl from Russia.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of my lovely dad who was constantly shouting at me for bad language.

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.

The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They're totally focused on natural gas and oil.

There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.

A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.

I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.

The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but I'm obsessed with the way they use language, like they use a swear word very poetically.

Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.

I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

My brain can form thoughts that come out through my mouth. The problem is sometimes I stumble the words because I speak five different languages - we know all that - so the thing is, I like to speak the language that everybody speaks all around the world, that the WWE Universe loves... that's the language of wrestling that I do in the ring.

Everything that is true is authentic. When we were born, we did not have knowledge. As soon as we have language, we learn to describe everything through that language and we learn to be like our family, our parents, those at school, etc.

The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.

I'm young, Russian, I come from money, and I date a very well-known person.

I think that the solution of the question of numerical superiority of Russian conventional forces has to be solved.

It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the sociopolitical conditions that existed at the time, but there's no scenario I can think of that suggests how a sudden change in these conditions could have led to the emergence of language.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.

All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.