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1.“Silence gives consent.”– Russian Proverbs (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

2. Time moves forward, and time moves quickly. So you just have to enjoy every second, every moment.- Alexander Ovechkin

3.“God keeps those safe who keep themselves safe.”– Russian Proverbs

4. “Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”― Fyodor Dostoevsky

5. The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. -Sophie Swetchine (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

6. The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. – Vladimir Lenin

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“Time makes the best healer.” – Russian Proverbs

8. “If you wake up and you’re not in pain, you know you’re dead.” ― Russian proverb

9. In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified. -Roman Jakobson (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

10. “Every vegetable has its time.”– Russian Proverbs

11. “Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.”― Russian proverb

12. “Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy’s Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day’s work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city’s reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”― P.G. Wodehouse

13. “An old friend is better than two new friends.” – Russian Proverbs

14. Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. – Constantin Stanislavski

15. “Ride slower — get further.”– Russian Proverbs (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

16. Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. -Anton Chekhov

17. “The snail is coming, who knows when it arrives.”– Russian Proverbs

18. “Those who wake up early are served by God.” – Russian Proverbs

19. “Pray to God, but row to shore”― Russian proverb

20. “As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”― Abraham Lincoln

21. “Morning is wiser than the evening.”– Russian Proverbs

22. “Those who wake up early are served by God.”– Russian Proverbs

23. Consistency for me is everything. – Alexei Navalny (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

24. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. – Nikita Khrushchev

25. “A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.”– Russian Proverbs

26. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. – Ayn Rand

27. “If you chase two rabbits…You will not catch either one.” ― Russian proverb

28. We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are. -Vladimir Zhirinovsky

29. “Live with wolves, howl like a wolf.”– Russian Proverbs

30. The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. -Boris Spassky

31. “When you rush, you make people laugh.”– Russian Proverbs

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! – Fyodor Dostoevsky

33. “Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.”– Russian Proverbs (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

34. “There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”― Katherine Arden

35. “The only free cheese is in the mousetrap” ― Russian proverb

36. We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are. -Vladimir Zhirinovsky

37. “Don‘t go to another monastery with your own rules.”– Russian Proverbs

38. The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

39. “Every joke has a grain of truth.”– Russian Proverbs

40. “They’re professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don’t forget that the Russians – any Russian – can drink you under the table.” ― Anthony Bourdain (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

41. “Visiting as a guest is good but it’s better at home.”– Russian Proverbs

42. I’m a peaceful creature; I’m vegetarian. I don’t like wars. – Pavel Durov

43. “Without effort, you won’t even pull a fish out of a pond.”– Russian Proverbs

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44. “All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.” ― Leo Tolstoy

45. “The best offense is a good defense.”– Russian Proverbs

46. “Beauty requires sacrifice.”– Russian Proverbs

47. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. -Wilhelm von Humboldt (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

48. “It’s better to have 100 friends than 100 rubles.” – Russian Proverbs

49. Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly. – Vitalik Buterin

50. “The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese–and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.” ― Eric Hoffer

51. “Nothing will happen in your life unless you try something.” -– Russian Proverbs

52. “Don’t dig a hole for someone else or you will fall into it yourself.”– Russian Proverbs (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

53. I’m like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can’t afford me. -Anna Kournikova

54. “The heart of another is like a dark forest.” ― Russian proverb

55. Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege. – Leon Trotsky

56. “She’s like snow in Russian,” said Anna. “Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]….”― Eva Ibbotson (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

57. “But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.” ― Virginia Woolf

58. I don’t think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment. – Tatyana Tolstaya

59. In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time. – Mikhail Sholokhov

60. In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on ‘formalism.’ There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich’s compositions and Prokofiev’s were no longer to be played. -Mstislav Rostropovich

61. Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him. – Romain Gary (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

62. Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.- Ivan Pavlov

63. Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. – Alexander Herzen (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

64. “I must add… my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.”― Fyodor Dostoevsky

65. Hey sky, take off your hat, I’m on my way! – Valentina Tereshkova

66. “I’ll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”― Sarah Miller

67. “I looked and looked but I didn’t see God.― Yuri Gagarin

68. “The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”― Otto von Bismarck

69. Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. -Ivan Pavlov

70. “It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn’t a French salon.”― Martin Cruz Smith

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71. “After a storm comes fair weather after sorrow comes joy.” ― Russian proverb (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

72. I don’t fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people. – Khabib Nurmagomedov

73. “I wish I wasn’t an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I’m sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.” ― Sarah Miller (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

74. “I felt a wish never to leave that room – a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.”― Leo Tolstoy

75. There is no must in art because art is free.-Wassily Kandinsky

76. “With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.” ― Russian proverb

77. “We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?”― Catherynne M. Valente

78. Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. – Ivan Turgenev (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

79. “We should be used to it,” Tatiana reasons. “There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.” ― Sarah Miller

80. “if you’re scared of the wolves, stay out of the forest.”― Russian proverb

81. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. -Rosa Luxemburg (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

82. “We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ”― Vladimir Putin

83. Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. – Ivan Turgenev

84.“Our listeners asked us:

“What is chaos?”

We’re answering:

“We do not comment on economic policy.” ― John Vaillant

85. “The past is a lighthouse, not a port.” ― Russian proverb

86. “Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.”― George Orwell (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

87. “He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.” ― Boris Pasternak

88. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. -Boris Pasternak (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

89. “Who has served in the army doesn’t laugh at the circus.”― Russian proverb

90. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. – Sholom Aleichem

91. “If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered – viscerally, emotionally remembered – what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have invaded Chechnya in the 1990s, not once and not twice. To do so was the moral equivalent of postwar Germany invading western Poland. Very few Russians saw it that way – which is itself evidence of how little they know about their own history.”― Anne Applebaum

92. My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. – Marat Safin

93. “Russian stories never have happy endings.” ― Bill Browder

94. “It’s different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.”― Sarah Miller

95. The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever. – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

96. “Everything new is well-forgotten old.” ― Russian proverb

97. Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. -Dmitri Mendeleev

98. “Since well before the Kung’s engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men–some more fluently than others.”― John Vaillant

99. “It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia.”― Sarah Palin

100. We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it. – Boris Yeltsin (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

101. “At the center of all that is Russia – of its culture, its psychology, and, perhaps, its destiny – stands the Kremlin, a walled fortress a thousand years old and four hundred miles from the sea. Physically speaking, its walls are no longer high enough to fend off attack, and yet, they still cast a shadow across the entire country.”― Amor Towles

102. We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine’s borders. – Sergei Lavrov

103. We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it. -Boris Yeltsin (Russian quotes and Russian Proverbs)

104. A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced. – Fedor Emelianenko

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