Nancy Wake quote: "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."

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
NANCY WAKE

I adored my father.
NANCY WAKE

I couldn't be anymore happier. This counts as a thousand wins.
WAKE WOOD

We won with hustle, defense and determination. Burkeville is quick and made us look bad at times. We...
WAKE WOOD

Climate researchers had known for some time that various trends were emerging in the long-term data ...
CAMERON WAKE

We haven?t seen this yet, but the regional effect will be greater.
CAMERON WAKE

Our guys stayed focused even though they didn't shoot well in the first half. They shook it off and ...
WAKE WOOD

We can't afford to get rattled and let their quickness affect us. They like to slap at the ball and ...
WAKE WOOD

We feel if we have 10 turnovers or less, we'll have a chance to win the game. We had a pretty good f...
WAKE WOOD

We are happy with that. We want to be undefeated in district and the state playoffs. That's what we ...
WAKE WOOD

Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust, Atom to Atom, Returning to the ONE.
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

You are NOT helpless, outnumbered or exposed… you never have been! All actions are sparked by a si...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

Sometimes when something scares us or makes us feel uneasy, it’s because we actually believe there...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

All in all, time really seems to be a personal consideration and the HAPPIER we are, the LESS we are...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

It will be a NEW BEGINNING, the finding of our TRUE nature and the full EXPOSURE of suppression and ...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

I like these words for what they are and what they tell me. Regardless of any potential "motives". W...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

The experience of time is what we make of it and the more we live in the NOW the more we can benefit...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

It is Ignorant to try and discuss, argue or even fight with someone Ignorant!
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

That the ultimate goal for anyone and any group should be, LOVE, granting others TO BE, KNOWLEDGE an...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

If ignorance is really bliss, then I don't understand where all this sadness is coming from.
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

When something seems confusing or does not seem complete… that is because it is a lie or it's plan...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

Everyone is allowed to have their own truth and reality! Just because it may be different than yours...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE

I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE

...TRUTH, should therefore be our ultimate Religion...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

The beginning and first step to happiness, is, to start thinking, that it is NOT systematically the ...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

I always hear, read, observe and try to understand all view points, I even focus on trying to find t...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

When something seems to install fear, then I would suggest questioning that source.
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

Of course you may at any time speak up and share what's on your mind. You must at all times remember...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

Everything you WANT, you need to GIVE first!
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

Being true to myself, observing and applying what works for me is my Integrity and that is more impo...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

Right or Wrong does NOT exist, there is only realities, there is yours, his, hers and mine and THAT ...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

FORGIVE and you'll be FORGIVEN!
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

You could have someone stand beside you and experience a whole other reality at the very same time l...
WAKE UP! MESSAGE

You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE

I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE

She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top...
NANCY GIBBS

When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high...
NANCY PELOSI

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacen...
NANCY PEARCEY

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev...
NANCY FRIDAY

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on m...
NANCY GRACE

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying a...
NANCY PELOSI

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They a...
NANCY KRESS

When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
NANCY WILLARD

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches...
NANCY WILLARD

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the qu...
NANCY WILLARD

I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Ma...
NANCY WERLIN

You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon,...
NANCY WERLIN

I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is ...
NANCY WERLIN

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag...
NANCY WERLIN

There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback ...
NANCY WERLIN

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's te...
NANCY WERLIN

No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book ...
NANCY WERLIN

'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
NANCY WERLIN

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t...
NANCY TRAVIS

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with...
NANCY TRAVIS

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are n...
NANCY TRAVIS

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing thin...
NANCY TRAVIS

I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
NANCY TRAVIS

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
NANCY TRAVIS

'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g...
NANCY TRAVIS

I love zoo sanctuaries.
NANCY TRAVIS

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
NANCY THAYER

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serend...
NANCY THAYER

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll b...
NANCY SINATRA

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
NANCY SINATRA

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked a...
NANCY SINATRA

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
NANCY SINATRA

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
NANCY SINATRA

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio...
NANCY SINATRA

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family too...
NANCY SINATRA

His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the ...
NANCY SINATRA

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
NANCY SINATRA

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip...
NANCY SINATRA

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cru...
NANCY SINATRA

After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird sit...
NANCY SINATRA

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
NANCY SINATRA

Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his ...
NANCY SINATRA

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
NANCY SINATRA

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go...
NANCY SINATRA

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
NANCY SINATRA

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey op...
NANCY SINATRA

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It...
NANCY SINATRA

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and...
NANCY SINATRA

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these l...
NANCY SINATRA

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else,...
NANCY SINATRA

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of creden...
NANCY SINATRA

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni...
NANCY ROMAN

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so op...
NANCY ROMAN

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that...
NANCY ROMAN

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own i...
NANCY ROMAN

It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi...
NANCY ROMAN

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a...
NANCY ROMAN

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The g...
NANCY ROMAN

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientis...
NANCY ROMAN

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
NANCY REAGAN

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
NANCY REAGAN

I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
NANCY REAGAN

The movies were custard compared to politics.
NANCY REAGAN

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is differ...
NANCY REAGAN

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at t...
NANCY REAGAN

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
NANCY REAGAN

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryo...
NANCY REAGAN

It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
NANCY REAGAN

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elec...
NANCY REAGAN

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
NANCY REAGAN

My life really began when I married my husband.
NANCY REAGAN

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists...
NANCY REAGAN

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortio...
NANCY REAGAN

I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
NANCY REAGAN

Just say no to drugs!
NANCY REAGAN

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all her...
NANCY REAGAN

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
NANCY REAGAN

Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie s...
NANCY PICKARD

Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the sta...
NANCY PICKARD

I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the book...
NANCY PICKARD

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling o...
NANCY PICKARD

I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
NANCY PICKARD

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. ...
NANCY PICKARD

I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching...
NANCY PICKARD

It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk abou...
NANCY PICKARD

I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
NANCY PICKARD

I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things close...
NANCY PICKARD

I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest,...
NANCY PICKARD

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
NANCY PICKARD

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladd...
NANCY PELOSI

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will ...
NANCY PELOSI

When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an e...
NANCY PELOSI

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has b...
NANCY PELOSI

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
NANCY PELOSI

The American dream is about freedom.
NANCY PELOSI

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politic...
NANCY PELOSI

If you don't vote, you don't count.
NANCY PELOSI

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
NANCY PELOSI

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
NANCY PELOSI

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time...
NANCY PELOSI

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embr...
NANCY PELOSI

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than i...
NANCY PELOSI

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory......
NANCY PELOSI

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
NANCY PEARCEY

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
NANCY PEARCEY

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, d...
NANCY PEARCEY

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
NANCY PEARCEY

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western,...
NANCY PEARCEY

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to...
NANCY PEARCEY

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that ...
NANCY PEARCEY

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actuall...
NANCY PEARCEY

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 't...
NANCY PEARCEY

Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, indepen...
NANCY PEARCEY

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Theref...
NANCY PEARCEY

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the class...
NANCY PEARCEY

If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their ...
NANCY PEARCEY

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest co...
NANCY PEARCEY

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testab...
NANCY PEARCEY

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
NANCY PEARCEY

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, w...
NANCY PEARCEY

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. ...
NANCY PEARCEY

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christian...
NANCY PEARCEY

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not...
NANCY PEARCEY

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
NANCY MITFORD

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
NANCY MITFORD

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,...
NANCY MEYERS

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
NANCY MEYERS

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
NANCY MEYERS

I really wanted to be a writer.
NANCY MEYERS

My movies are not messed with by the studios.
NANCY MEYERS

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ...
NANCY MEYERS

I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
NANCY MEYERS

We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row ...
NANCY MEYERS

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You&#...
NANCY MEYERS

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all...
NANCY MEYERS

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all...
NANCY MEYERS

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Pr...
NANCY MEYERS

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
NANCY MCKEON

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
NANCY MCKEON

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my caree...
NANCY MCKEON

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Depar...
NANCY MCKEON

One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Ear...
NANCY MCKEON

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially ...
NANCY MCKEON

At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
NANCY MCKEON

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
NANCY MARCHAND

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the the...
NANCY MARCHAND

Acting was something I had to do.
NANCY MARCHAND

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,...
NANCY MARCHAND

I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, ...
NANCY MARCHAND

My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - a...
NANCY LUBLIN

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, bu...
NANCY LUBLIN

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are s...
NANCY LUBLIN

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like b...
NANCY LUBLIN

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discriminatio...
NANCY LUBLIN

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrep...
NANCY LUBLIN

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of f...
NANCY LUBLIN

If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the...
NANCY LUBLIN

I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the las...
NANCY LUBLIN

I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young peopl...
NANCY LUBLIN

I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall S...
NANCY LUBLIN

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.

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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.

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