Crossman Quotes & Sayings

The Zionists' ... main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine. — Richard Crossman

A BROKE MAN IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A NICKLE, BUT A MAN WITHOUT A DREAM — Jesse Duplantis

That boy ought to sleep with a rubber band around his head to train his ears not to stick out. I had a beau once who did that and it improved him immensely. — L.M. Montgomery

[8] Consider who it is that you praise when you praise people dispassionately: is it those who are just, or unjust? - 'Those who are just.' - The temperate or the intemperate? - 'The temperate.' - The self-controlled or the dissolute? - 'The self-controlled.' [9] - You should know, then, that if you make yourself a person of that kind, you'll be making yourself beautiful; but if you neglect these virtues, you're bound to be ugly, whatever techniques you adopt to make yourself appear beautiful. — Epictetus

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. — Clive James

When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them. — David Crossman

white, Emily. I've wanted you for a very long time. First, I wasn't brave enough. Then we weren't in the same place. But now we are. You're here. I'm here. And I want to be your man. — Veronica Larsen

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve. — Patrick Leahy

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong — Richard Crossman

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last? — Garth Brooks

My grandfather always says is "too dry" even if it's soup. — Stephen Chbosky

One of the difficulties of politics is that politicians are shocked by those who are really prepared to let their thinking reach any conclusion. Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible- and perhaps it really is. — Richard Crossman

Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show. — Bruno Heller

I don't believe in doing things just to do them. — Jennifer Hudson

For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant. — Richard Crossman

Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure — Alexis De Tocqueville

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me. — Richard Crossman

When you give in to bullies, you don't just empower them, you encourage whatever methods they employ to achieve their ends; usually terror and violence. Meaning it's the innocent who pay; mourners at a funeral in Baghdad, a group of Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya, a group of defenseless school children in Pakistan. When we turn a blind eye to atrocities, we are complicit in them. — David Crossman

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. — Ben Carson