Anna Maria Quotes

#1. ... it was as if she'd shut out the outside world.
No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.

Asa Larsson

#2. I, Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger Isis solemnly swear on

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

Anna Maria Chavez

#4. The difficulty lies in the simplicity

Maria Anna Van Driel

#5. Nobody likes him now but the people,

Edmund Morris

#6. Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.

Roberto Bolano

#7. Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

Anna Maria Chavez

#8. When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.

Maria Semple

#9. You can have the whole world looking out for you, Pari, but it is not a substitute for that one special person to share your life with.

Farahad Zama

#10. violence is the last resource of incompetence

Isaac Asimov

#11. Ignorance" is NOT not knowing the facts, it's not willing to know when the fact are shown to you.

Maria Anna Van Driel

#12. The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.

Michael Gungor

#13. Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.

Anna Maria Chavez

#14. Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

Anna Maria Chavez

#15. I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Helmut Jahn

#16. Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Anna Maria Chavez

#17. It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.

Famke Janssen

#18. Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

Anna Maria Chavez

#19. I think people like to have everything be perfectly morally clear. When the lines get blurred it worries them. I'm not worried. I don't think the men are either. But I think that the videos bring up feelings in people that they don't want to feel. Sometimes people get really mad. That's okay.

Laurel Nakadate

#20. Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

Anna Maria Chavez

#21. At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

Anna Maria Chavez

#22. There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

Mira Grant

#23. When I work I forget all the rest.

Claude Monet

#24. What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

Anna Maria Chavez

#25. At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

Anna Maria Chavez

#26. Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.

Anna Maria Chavez

#27. In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

Alice McDermott

#28. I bet I hit .400 with your pussy on my lips.

C.D. Reiss

#29. As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.

Anna Maria Chavez

#30. If Bailey wants to go, we'll go. I'm not choosing for her."
"You can't let her boss you around, man. She'll own your balls."
"She already owns them. At this point, we're just negotiating visitation rights."
Cooper grinned.

Bijou Hunter

#31. Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

Anna Maria Chavez

#32. Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Anna Maria Chavez

#33. I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni

Anna Maria Chavez

#34. Of course I talk to myself.
Sometimes, I need expert advice!

Edward Henheffer

#35. When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

Jamaica Kincaid