Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 16)

"The right to happiness is fundamental"

"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener"

"Everything starts from a dot"

"The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Never having alone time is real tough on people"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Chess is mental torture"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I fed my ego, but not my soul"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I've met enough KGB colonels in my life"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

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Quotes by Russian authors