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“...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.”
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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
Source : "Ice cream? Immigration? 12 ways Colbert kept truthiness alive" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. April 10, 2014.
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“My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.”
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“In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”
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“Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.”
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“A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.”
Source : "On the Volcanoes of the Moon", American Journal of Science, p. 347, 1846.
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“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
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“Hardships make or break people.”
Source : Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books