Sarajevo City Quotes & Sayings

So let them pass, small people of no great significance, caught up and swept together like dead leaves in the great whirlwind of the war. — Nevil Shute

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones. — Andrew Solomon

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius. — Olga Kurylenko

We can work together to produce better footballers for both FK Sarajevo and maybe Cardiff City and maybe even to play for other clubs. We hope this will be well received by everybody and enhance good relations between Malaysia and Bosnia. — Vincent Tan

Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first. — John Longenecker

If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die. — Steven Galloway

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do. — Steven Galloway

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. — Lyn Nofziger

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up. — Joel Osteen

If if could bottle and patent 'Logic', I'd give it away. — Andrea L'Artiste

The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself. — Jason Evert

Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen. — Alvin Lucier

You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better. — Ron Johnson

When we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing. We worship anything. G. K. Chesterton — Matt Papa

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars. — Janine Di Giovanni

I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moon shadow ...
Did it take long to find me, I asked the faithful light
... and are you going to stay the night? — Cat Stevens

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way. — Ibn Warraq

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman. — James McBride

The men on the hills told her that she hated them, and they did everything they could to make it true. She did not fight very hard. It was an easy thing to do. She wonders whether it would have been possible to behave any differently. She hopes it is. She hopes that, somewhere in the city, there are people who are resisting the temptation to turn these men into devils, to say that all men are like them, to oppose their very existence the way they always said the people of Sarajevo did. — Steven Galloway

Our gifts to this world, and this realm's gifts to us can come in many ways, often as we least expect them but they come especially when we are open to give, open to receive. — Jasmuheen