Sergei Kourdakov Quotes

Sergei, what are you checking for?" I asked. At first I thought it was funny. He moved quickly and efficiently, making a clean sweep of each room with me trailing behind him.

"I am checking to make sure we are alone," he informed me. "You could be spy."

"Sergei, I'm not a spy. There is no one here in my apartment besides you and me. You know where I work." I tried to assure him, but I didn't know what else I could do to convince him otherwise. ~ K. Kidd

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

We talked to Sergei Bodrov who did "Mongel" who I thought was incredible. There was a lot of people who've done a lot of things that I really appreciate and then you go back to the Italian spaghetti westerns that our spaghetti westerns were based off of so I've seen everything. ~ Josh Brolin

Life consists of nothing but exceptions. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes. ~ Sergei Prokofiev

Maybe she was the lucky one, I thought, a woman
who had divested herself of both future and past. No dreams, no
standards, a woman who smoked and drank and slept with men like
Sergei, men who were spiritually what came up out of the sewers when
it rained. ~ Janet Fitch

We were searching for ourselves in each other. ~ Sergei Parajanov

Until you become wiser, you won't become more powerful. Until you become more powerful you won't master higher magic. Until you master higher magic, you won't go into places that are dangerous. Your situation is unique. You were affected by" - he frowned - "the ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe. ~ Sergei Ivanov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies. ~ Sergei Lavrov

Fuck your fucking mother!' Gesar howled, twisting the wheel round. In a moment of genuine terror only the Russian language could convey the true depths of his feelings. It made me feel proud of our great Russian culture! ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

I try not to think of the future. What we have now is good. Any mlre of this is just a bonus. (Sergei) ~ Aleksandr Voinov

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

If we do any deed that is unconditionally good, it gives the Dark Magicians the right to do an evil deed. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Russia and the U.S. bear a special responsibility in world affairs. We have much to offer the rest of the world. Our common history testifies to this, and modern challenges demand that we work together. ~ Sergei Lavrov

I can't even find a pond small enough
to drown in without being ostentatious ~ Frank O'Hara

What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music
reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power? ~ Sergei Lavrov

You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery."

"All I do is not close my eyes to them," Edgar retorted. "And that's why I don't trust Zabulon. I distrust him almost as much as I do Gesar. I can even trust you more - you're just another unfortunate chess piece who happens by chance to be painted a different color from me. Does a white pawn hate a black one? No. Especially if the two pawns have their heads down together over a quiet beer or two."

"You know," Anton said in a slightly surprised voice, "I just don't understand how you can carry on living if you see the world like that. I'd just go and hang myself."

"So you don't have any counterarguments to offer?"

Anton took a gulp of beer too. The wonderful thing about this natural Czech beer was that even if you drank lots of it, it still didn't make your head or your body feel heavy... Or was that an illusion?

"Not a single one," Anton admitted. "Right now, this very moment, not a single one. But I'm sure you're wrong. It's just difficult to argue about the colors of the rainbow with a blind man. There's something missing in you... I don't know what exactly. But it's something very important, and without it you're more helpless than a blind man. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

As a schoolboy I liked to draw the leaders of the world proletariat - especially Marx. Just start smearing an ordinary splotch of ink around and you've already got a resemblance ... ~ Sergei Dovlatov

What we did say is that it is up to the Syrians themselves to decide how to run the country, how to introduce the reforms, what kind reforms, without any outside interference. ~ Sergei Lavrov

The struggle against terrorists in the territory of Syria should be structured in cooperation with the Syrian government, which clearly stated its readiness to join it. ~ Sergei Lavrov

The day was cold but sunny. The city was decorated with holiday flags. ~ Sergei Dovlatov

Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Sergei recited a Pushkin poem in Russian while I recited a stanza by Racine from my French classical repertoire. Both of us, romantics at heart, were inebriated by the fresh air, the calm and the greenery surrounding us, and we decided to ride to a village where we could taste the local food and wash it down with beer for Sergei and tea for me. ~ Liliane Willens

The Russian Federation and the United States of America, the two biggest nuclear powers in the world, but apart from nuclear-wise, we have a lot in common. We have huge territories, natural resources, technologies, science, education, and of course human capital. ~ Sergei Lavrov

If there's no ethically correct solution, act irrationally. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

We didn't raise our daughter, we merely loved her. ~ Sergei Dovlatov

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness. ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . . ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan, .. until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side. ~ Sergei Ivanov

We are our own gods and our own demons ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy. ~ Sergei Lavrov

God could arrest you for this,' said Sergei. 'This is better than murder. ~ Katherine Rundell

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands. ~ Sergei Rachmaninoff

The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise - Foma ~ Sergei Lukyanenko

If I was going to shoot you, we wouldn't be having this conversation. What's your name?" The Italian lifted his head enough to meet Sergei's gaze. "Who wants to know?" Sergei rolled his eyes. "The guy who's going to decide whether you wake up tomorrow in a hospital, a jail cell, or a morgue." He ~ L.A. Witt