#ma

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#books #called #college #courses #first

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#bio #cooler #found #i #i am

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#here #i #jokes #laugh #make

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#comedians #information #just #level #listen

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#character #country #defined #discharge #duty

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#change #crisis #greater #lesser #people

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#accurately #arrives #collective #comprehend #democratic

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#about #another #being #christian #christian ethic

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#conform #lifestyle #make #men #must

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#been #commandments #moral #never #replaced