"If this city is to die, it won't……" — Steven Galloway
"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."
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13 Quotes by Steven Galloway
Steven Galloway has 13 quotes on this site.
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If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something…
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Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get…
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It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
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Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or…
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This is how....life happens. One small thing at a time. A series of inconsequential junctions, any or none of which…
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By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort…
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She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all…
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Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to…
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A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has…
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Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be…
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The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world…
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You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.
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