Zsenik Quotes & Sayings

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own. — Cullen Hightower

When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa. — Hakeem Olajuwon

Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power. — Sheila Johnson

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege. — Shari Arison

MIGHT HAVE LIKED Xandra in other circumstances - which, I guess, is sort of like saying I might have liked the kid who beat me up if he hadn't beat me up. — Donna Tartt

I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since. — Tobey Maguire

Without a plan in your head or a penny in your pocket, you best have a prayer in your heart- — Nancy B. Brewer

I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off! — David Oyelowo

As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room. — John Ridley

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit — Woodrow Wilson

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.' — Voltaire

Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human. — Leah C. Fowler

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world ... No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul. — C.S. Lewis

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. — Will Smith