Bosnia Serb War Quotes & Sayings

Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them. — Millicent Fenwick

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden. — Ana Monnar

Feathers. Bloody hell, he hadn't seen that one coming when he'd considered his future. Like a goddamn chicken. — Karen Marie Moning

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor. — Tracy McMillan

Senator John Stennis:
The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden

... Bear up until you see you're gaining. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer. — Alanis Morissette

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower — Oscar Levant

I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated. — Dionne Warwick

That there could be death camps and a siege and civilians slaughtered by the thousands and thrown into mass graves on European soil fifty years after the end of the Second World War gave the war in Bosnia and the Serb campaign of killing in Kosovo their special, anachronistic interest. But one of the main ways of understanding the war crimes committed in southeastern Europe in the 1990s has been to say that the Balkans, after all, were never really part of Europe. — Susan Sontag

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose. — Carla Gugino

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it — Colin Powell

War creates murderers and profiteers. Wherever there is conflict you'll find a man ready to torture, rape and kill in the name of The Cause and to line his pocket with a quick easy buck. — Ken Scott

The spelling and handwriting were those of a man imperfectly educated, but still the language itself was forcible. In the expressions of endearment there was a kind of rough, wild love; but here and there were dark unintelligible hints at some secret not of love,
some secret that seemed of crime. "We ought to love each other," was one of the sentences I remember, "for how everyone else would execrate us if all was known." Again: "Don't let anyone be in the same room with you at night,
you talk in your sleep." And again: "What's done can't be undone; and I tell you there's nothing against us unless the dead could come to life." Here there was underlined in a better handwriting (a female's), "They do! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart. — Conn Iggulden