Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 92
Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.”
Louis Riel (1844–1885) Canadian politician
Immediately before his execution in 1885, when a guard asked him for a souvenir, as quoted in Fifty Mighty Men (1977) by Grant MacEwan, p. 45
“My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given.”
Philip Sidney (1554–1586) English diplomat
"My true love hath my heart, and I have his".
Susannah Constantine (1962) British fashion designer and journalist
Reaction to being aged to a 70-year-old by prosthetics.
God's gift to women (2007)
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
Knox College commencement address (3 June 2006)
Context: But you have one thing that may save you, and that is your youth. This is your great strength. It is also why I hate and fear you. Hear me out. It has been said that children are our future. But does that not also mean that we are their past? You are here to replace us. I don't understand why we're here helping and honoring them. You do not see union workers holding benefits for robots.
Roh Moo-hyun (1946–2009) 9th President of the Republic of Korea
Excerpts from inaugural address (25 February 2003)
“Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
Alan Paton (1903–1988) South African writer and activist
Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948
Source: Cry, The Beloved Country