A Quote by John Pomfret

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

John Pomfret

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Had Life My Life Numerous Occasions Threatened

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John Pomfret
American - Journalist

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

If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

Gaspar Noe

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

Gaspar Noe

The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naïveté belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.

Payam Akhavan

My mother is Bosnian. Obviously I understand the language. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, it's all the same.

Bernard Tomic

I've dreamed on numerous occasions that I've lost the biggest event in my life, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it.

Jordan Burroughs

Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them.

Josip Broz Tito

I've been shot at on numerous occasions.

John Pomfret

When my older and younger brother came to live in this country, they were attacked on numerous occasions and had to defend themselves. This was a country where it was hard to assimilate, it was difficult because a lot of people didn't want you here.

Lenny Henry

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

Novak Djokovic

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

Prince Harry

Coming to Rajasthan had been my idea, my dream. In the weeks before we arrived, I had tried and failed on numerous occasions to enthuse my family with the joys of travel in India; reading bits from the guidebooks, telling the children about the history of the Mughals, insisting to my daughter that she really would enjoy curry if it was in India.

Fiona Bruce

But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.

Novak Djokovic

A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.