G8 Forum Quotes

#1. She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.

David Baldacci

#3. People see what they expect to see," he says sharply. "Through a filter of their own hatred and prejudice.

Laurie Forest

#4. My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.

Nicolle Wallace

#5. Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

Sherry Argov

#6. Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Nhat Hanh

#7. Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Brene Brown

#8. When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Andrew Sullivan

#9. Among Europe's Great Powers only Austria-Hungary remained without a colonial empire.

Charles Emmerson

#10. But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

Chris Bohjalian

#11. The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

Craig Ferguson

#12. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.

Carol Rifka Brunt