Robert K. Massie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.
-- Robert K. Massie

#Cat #Doe #Mice
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
-- Robert K. Massie

#Rasputin #Would Be
The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.
-- Robert K. Massie

#Easy #Reconcile
In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
-- Robert K. Massie

#Russia #Secret #Secrecy
One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
-- Robert K. Massie

#America #Ideas #Majority
Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.
-- Robert K. Massie

#Girl #Daughter #Children

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
When one door opens, so does another one.
I see you that have a little swimming mouse
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.

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