Short Girl Scout Quotes & Sayings

The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. — William Golding

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late. — Clayton M Christensen

Keep your eye on the ridgeline, never lose sight of winter's hem. This is how you'll like to remember yourself: standing slightly apart and moving away, knowing in that last tawny rush of the leaves: what goes out there, it never comes back. — Andrew Zawacki

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. — Fiona Shaw

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice. — B.K.S. Iyengar

As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes. — James Lee Burke

May you carry the weight of this betrayal to your grave. — Jessica Khoury

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce

Nowhere is this challenge more critical
and the need for action more pressing
than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia, Djibouti to Somalia, the devastating consequences of drought, desertification and land degradation are playing out before our eyes. The worst drought in 60 years has placed more than 13.3 million people
predominately women and children
in need of emergency assistance. — Rajiv Shah

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar. — Greg Cootsona

For example, if you have the urge to eat ice cream, use the "I don't" strategy from Principle 1 and say to yourself, "I don't eat ice cream." Then, immediately begin focusing on a replacement because what you focus on gets stronger. In this case, you might begin focusing on eating a bowl of sliced fruits instead. Every time you get the urge for ice cream, replace it by eating a bowl of fruits instead. Over time, your negative habit will — Akash Karia

The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn. — Bo Jackson

[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them ... — Leslie Groves

I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit. — Squarepusher