Quotables

‘You’ve got this nice beach scene going on, and the next moment is just a nightmare.’

Beachgoer Steve Bouser on a June 14 shark attack at Oak Island, N.C., in which a 12-year-old girl lost part of her left arm. It was the second attack at Oak Island in a week, and in another shark attack two miles away an hour later a 16-year-old boy lost his left arm.

‘This is kinda the game.’

New York Times mid-Atlantic bureau chief Sheryl Gay Stolberg on the newspaper’s decision to run front-page stories about Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s few speeding tickets and personal finances.

‘I wasn’t converted out of homo-sexuality. I was converted out of unbelief.’

Former lesbian Rosaria Butterfield, author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, during a panel discussion at the Southern Baptist Convention on June 17.

‘White Christians ought to think about what that flag says to African-American brothers and sisters in Christ.’

Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, on controversy over South Carolina's flying of the Confederate battle flag on statehouse grounds. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on June 22 called for the removal of the flag.

‘How many years do you have to not have the world end to decide that it didn't end because that reason was wrong?’

Stewart Brand, former disciple of ecologist and environmental doomsayer Paul Ehrlich and former publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, on Ehrlich's highly publicized theories on overpopulation from the 1960s and 1970s..