“From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.” FirstsTwentiesSnowFirst LoveStatuesMatrimony Author:Walter Scott
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.” IfsWritingFactsEarthMovingClearFeetRocksMovementThousandMountainCreaturesOceanHighestIndiaTwentiesRemainsWarmSentencesSurfaceSnowFlagsMarineSummitSkeletonsEverestClimbersOne SentenceMt EverestLimestone Author:John McPhee
“Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.” NeedsFirstsI CanFightingMy OwnWhiteBehindsTeacherFeetCenturyBattleTwentiesHandleSnowRoutineCriedCharmingKnightsBrutes Book:The Unusual Suspects: The Sisters Grimm, Book Two Source: The Unusual Suspects: The Sisters Grimm, Book Two
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.” YearsLooksLittlesWhiteRoomsTreeTenSpringTwentiesSnowFiftyScoreHungSeventiesLeaving MeCherriesWoodlandWearing White Author:A. E. Housman
“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.” MayLongAgeYoungSpiritDiesYouthOptimismTwentiesDown AndAgingWaveSnowIceCoveredPessimismCynicismEightyThere Is HopeDie Young Author:Samuel Ullman
“Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingGivenTermLeadershipLeaderMinutesHabitTwentiesSnowOpennessInstructionOwnershipShort TermWay Of ThinkingSnowstorms Book:Developing the Leader Within You Source: Developing the Leader Within You