"Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner."

-- Graves B. Erskine

#Military Quotes #Marine Quotes #Gun Quotes

“His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.”
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.”
“I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.”
“With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making oneâ€™s self useful to himself and all mankind.”
“Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.”
“Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.”

Source : "Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. August 11, 2008.
“It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.”
“I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet”

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