Witold Pilecki Quotes

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

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• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Amazing
  • Sense
  • Living

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Sense
  • Media
  • Involved

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Men
  • Women
  • Humor

• Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Humor
  • Sense
  • Laugh

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sun
  • Christ
  • Mountain

• As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Growth
  • Spoiled

• The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trouble
  • Sense
  • Tragedy

• I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Sense
  • Class
  • Status Quo

• I don't have to follow your orders. I don't work here anymore.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Orders

• Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Real
  • Love
  • Sense

• It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Sense
  • Holy Scripture
  • Unlawful

• I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Believe
  • Reason
  • Destiny

• In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Sense
  • Accomplishment
  • Expedition

• Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Christianity
  • Eternity

• Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Grief
  • Cry
  • Rage

• 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
  • Sense
  • Account
  • Orders