Ronald Cohen (1945) British businessman
Book The Second Bounce of the Ball (2007)
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“One looks like a grenade went off in there. The other looks like a bad knife cut.”
Peter Rhee (1961) American surgeon
Comparing gunshot wounds from AR-15 style rifles and handguns ([Sarah, Zhang, June 17, 2016, September 24, 2018, What an AR-15 can do to the Human Body, Wired, https://www.wired.com/2016/06/ar-15-can-human-body/]; [America’s Failure to Protect Its Children from School Shootings Is a National Disgrace, John, Cassidy, February 15, 2018, September 24, 2018, The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/americas-failure-to-protect-its-children-from-school-shootings-is-a-national-disgrace-parkland-florida]; [The one number that shows America’s problem with school shootings is unique, Amanda, Erickson, February 15, 2018, September 24, 2018, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/15/the-one-number-that-shows-americas-problem-with-school-shootings-is-unique/]).
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963) Child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972
"Kim Phuc, the napalm girl: 'Love is more powerful than any weapon'" in Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/kim-phuc-the-napalm-girl-love-is-more-powerful-than-any-weapon-1.2661740 (28 May 1996)
“I felt so aimless - like a tennis ball, bouncing, bouncing - I began to wonder where I'd land.”
James Baldwin book Giovanni's Room
Pt. 2, Ch. 4 - p.108
Giovanni's Room (1956)
“Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell?”
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Poem reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”
Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
“The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"The Dead Heart"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)
“Now it cuts like a knife,
But it feels so right.”
Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter
Cuts Like a Knife
Song lyrics, Cuts Like a Knife (1983)
“We decided to turn off all cell phones and computers.”
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982) Swedish princess
royalcorrespondent.com interview http://royalcorrespondent.com/2013/07/15/we-really-are-a-team-says-princess-madeleine-in-a-new-interview/