Citadel Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge. — Bill Cosby

After being still for so long, I am incapable of moving quicker than ivy growing over a rock. — Fennel Hudson

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life. — Kym Whitley

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention. — Helmut Jahn

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. — Maurice Chevalier

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends. — Rudolf Steiner

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process.
Without that, he said, the wolves will take over. — Carl Sagan

God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation. — Mark Evans

Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music. — Charlotte Alington Barnard

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls. — Matthew Henry

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable ... — Audre Lorde

Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in
comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus. — Martin Luther