Crouton Crackerjacks Quotes & Sayings

Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion.
This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas. — Paul R. Fleischman

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead. — David S. Broder

The mother of the groom has three duties: show up, shut up, and wear beige. So why is Abby kissing the bride's older brother? — Melissa Klein

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. — John Le Carre

I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love! — Ljupka Cvetanova

Fate is for fairy tales. It's a romantic notion. Luck is what happens when you're in the right place at the right time ... with the right person. — Cassia Leo

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. — Publilius Syrus

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this. — Michael Graves

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier. — Estelle Morris

It's now generally accepted that Mesmer was actually treating psychosomatic illness, and he profited mightily from people's gullibility. In retrospect, his theories and practices sound ridiculous, but in truth, the story of Mesmer parallels many stories of today. It's not so ridiculous to imagine people falling prey to products, procedures, and health claims that are brilliantly marketed. Every day we hear of some news item related to health. We are bombarded by messages about our health - good, bad, and confusingly contradictory. And we are literally mesmerized by these messages. Even the smart, educated, cautious, and skeptical consumer is mesmerized. It's hard to separate truth from fiction, and to know the difference between what's healthful and harmful when the information and endorsements come from "experts. — David Perlmutter

Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice. — James Patterson

Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny. — Abhijit Naskar

Lying there, I thought of my own culture, of the assembly of books in the library at Alexandria; of the deliberations of Darwin and Mendel in their respective gardens; of the architectural conception of the cathedral at Chartres; of Bach's cello suites, the philosophy of Schweitzer, the insights of Planck and Dirac. Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation? — Barry Lopez

[I]t was in the pairs that the prisoners kept alive the semblance of humanity concluded Elmer Luchterhand, a sociologist at Yale who interviewed fifty-two concentration camp survivors shortly after liberation.
Pairs stole food and clothing for each other, exchanged small gifts and planned for the future. If one member of a pair fainted from hunger in front of an SS officer, the other would prop him up.
Survival ... could only be a social achievement, not an individual accident, wrote Eugene Weinstock, a Belgian resistance fighter and Hungarian-born Jew who was sent to Buchenwald in 1943.
Finally the death of one member of a pair often doomed the other. Women who knew Anne Frank in the Bergen-Belsen camp said that neither hunger nor typhus killed the young girl who would become the most famous diarist of the Nazi era. Rather, they said, she lost the will to live after the death of her sister, Margot. — Blaine Harden

Design is a human ritual of understanding. — Maggie Macnab