Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

Winning means outlasting everyone else.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Laughter survives... it has to survive.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting.

You can still function as a living ruin.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.