Pilecki Quotes & Sayings

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it. — Luis Suarez

I think people should look cute all the time. — Rachel Zoe

The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. — Witold Pilecki

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy. — Witold Pilecki

I can't believe you quoted Shakespeare and the Doors in the same breath. — Jessica Topper

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. — George Saunders

I willingly accept Cassandra's fate
To speak the truth, although believed too late. — Anne Killigrew

I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight. — Marilynne Robinson

Every film that I have done has been woman-centric, because I am in it. — Kajol

A man fighting for his life can do more than he ever imagined he could. — Witold Pilecki

She's my fucking sun, and even though she's set tonight, she means nothing less to me. I love her just as fucking madly. — Krista Ritchie

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. — Jodi Picoult

I endeavor to make the most of everything. — Victoria Woodhull

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million. — Witold Pilecki

I mean, everything beats me, even twos and threes. — Frank Portman

the life of a supervillain. — Richard Roberts

Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly - our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our dreams. Our version of Witold Pilecki's medals comes in the lives we offer to God, lives we have bled and sweated and prayed and given ourselves for. This is what it means to be a man. — Stephen Mansfield

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors. — James Gleick