Quote by Lynne Olson Download Open image ““we’re inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.”” — Lynne Olson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There’s a lot that doesn’t bear thinking about. Thinking… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true-that aren't really how we feel-but they're running through our heads… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
“I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“(It doesn’t matter what we think we’re saying—it’s what others hear.)” — Carl Medearis Copy Share Image
“Beware of statements that begin with “I think that . . .” Just because someone thinks something doesn’t mean it’s true.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Think about it, but don't think too much. If you think too much you'll end up doing nothing.” — Dalia Sofer Copy Share Image
“their mother.” All over England, other citadels of the British class system were falling to the Poles. One 303 Squadron pilot, shot down during the Battle of Britain, parachuted onto an exclusive golf course, landing near the eighth tee. The men playing the hole insisted on carting the dazed flier off to the clubhouse for drinks. Another parachuting pilot drifted… — Lynne Olson Copy Share
“In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained on the… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“Not until the twenty-first century did the British government finally acknowledge officially that the Poles had indeed played a role in breaking Enigma. On… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“On your marks, he had said to the nation, for a race with destiny.… Get set for the greatest effort of our history. Then,… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“On June 8, 1946, Britain staged an elaborate victory parade, inviting armed forces from more than thirty Allied nations to London in a joyous celebration of their collective efforts. Czechs and Norwegians marched down the mall that day, as did Chinese and Dutch, Frenchmen and Iranians, Belgians and Australians, Canadians and South Africans, Sikhs and Arabs, and many, many more.… — Lynne Olson Copy Share
“At the Yalta Conference in early 1945, Franklin Roosevelt had made it clear that he had little interest in further close collaboration or partnership with the United States' Western Allies, whose empires and global influence were fast disintegrating. Serenely confident of his own country's power, he envisioned the Soviet Union and its main ally in dealing with postwar international problems.” — Lynne Olson Copy Share
“Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema noted that "through the entire war, one dream never left us, not for single day : our homecoming to Holland as… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“Soon after joining the agency, Marks set out to lessen the danger. His first step was to get rid of the codes that the agency had been using to communicate with its people in the field. They had come from MI6, which, for the first two years of SOE’s existence, had controlled its wireless circuits and provided its sets and… — Lynne Olson Copy Share
“Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment in which… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“Two months earlier, Victor de Laveleye, the organizer of BBC programs to Belgium, had urged his compatriots to demonstrate their resistance to German rule… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“In 1945, the schoolchildren of Arnhem volunteered to care for the graves of the more than 1,700 Allied dead, mostly Britons and Poles, who… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that the only way to strengthen the morale of the people whose morale is worth strengthening, is to tell them… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image