Bastei Verlag Quotes

#1. I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

Frank Spotnitz

#2. Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.

Klaus Schwab

#3. I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.

John Caudwell

#4. My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Burt Reynolds

#5. Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

Marianne Williamson

#6. I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.

Meghan Trainor

#7. There's no such thing as an independent person.

Peter Jennings

#8. Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

Philip K. Dick

#9. Calamity is blessing when it brings one to God.

Francine Rivers

#10. Some of us are more favorably disposed than others.

John McCain

#11. I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.

Stephen Pagliuca

#12. Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb? ... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

Laini Taylor