Nancy Wake quotes

“I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”
-- Nancy Wake

Source : "A belated salute for war heroine" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2004.

#Goodbye Quotes #Hate Quotes #War Quotes

“I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.”
-- Nancy Wake

#Natural Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more.”
-- Nancy Wake

Source : "Farewell to Nancy Wake, the mouse who ran rings around the Nazis" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2011.

#Sorry Quotes

“I won't leave you but you need to go on up and say your goodbyes. I'll stand right here behind you," Beau whispered from beside me”

“No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.”

Source : Song: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, 1986

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

“Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.”

“I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.”

“But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.”

“I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.”

“It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.”

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.”