#russ

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#become #being #myth #patriotic #people

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win. ↗

— George Wald

#competition #mistake #russians #species #thought

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#because #boston #came #delano #different

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#china #containing #exert #exerting #important

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#age #being #cool #germany #i

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

— Emma Watson

#collections #dolls #i #like #places

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev. ↗

— Robin Williams

#brooke #brooke shields #eyebrows #her #love

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#deep #deep south #estates #had #houses