“Peace is not the circumstances that surround, but rather the Person within me who I have submitted my whole life to.”
Source: Predestined: Born for Greatness
“The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heard
by listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl.”
Source: The Beauty Chorus
“Although there were serious attempts to unify the various strands of the French Resistance, the political situation remained somewhat complex throughout the war. It was into this complicated state of affairs that the first F Section agent of the SOE was parachuted into central France on the night of May 5-6, 1941. In the end, more than 400 SOE agents were sent into France during the course of the occupation, and 39 of them were women.
Pearl Witherington was one of those women. Although the SOE trained her to be a courier for a Resistance circuit called the Stationer network, nothing but her own strength, intelligence, and determination could have prepared her for the drastic change in roles that occurred while she was working in occupied France, a change that has made her one of the most celebrated female agents in SOE history”
Source: Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent (5)
“It's so loud inside my head, with those words I want to say to you.”
“The need to justify and its sister frailty, the need to boast, were lethal weaknesses in SOE.”
Source: Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
“There were only three things which SOE's agents could anticipate with confidence. That their parachutes would open, that their L-tablets would kill them, and that their messages from London would be accurately encoded.”
Source: Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
“The bloody-minded resilience with which they responded to disasters, especially those of their own making, their determination to liberate their territories no matter what, had been my first glimpse of what would one day be known as the Spirit of Resistance.”
Source: Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
“Consistency is not born from control but from clarity, and every clear process is an SOP waiting to be written.”
Source: Standard Operating Excellence: The Complete Guide to Building, Implementing, and Mastering SOPs
“There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.”
Source: Carnival