Entirely Beloved Cromwell Quotes & Sayings

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone? — Shelley Long

I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write. — John Darnielle

I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a new way. — Gloria Steinem

How you brew your life is how it's gonna taste on your tongue. You have the choice to make it bitter or sweeter. It all depend on the actions that you take day in day out. — Israelmore Ayivor

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey ... Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul ... Love says, You are right, but don't claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite. — Rumi

And being "nice" in the form of feigned sympathy is often equally as unsuccessful. We live in an age that celebrates niceness under various names. We are exhorted to be nice and to respect people's feelings at all times and in every situation. But nice alone in the context of negotiation can backfire. Nice, employed as a ruse, is disingenuous and manipulative. — Chris Voss

No challenges like producing effective people — Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you. — Tom Waits

He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas. — Hilary Mantel

I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns ... — Rachel Cohn

He turned to look at Lillian. He was seeing the full extent of her failure - in the immensity of his own indifference. The droning stream of her insults was like the sound of a distant riveting machine, a long, impotent pressure that reached nothing within him. He had heard her studied reminders of his guilt on every evening he had spent at home in the past three months. But guilt had been the one emotion he had found himself unable to feel. The punishment she had wanted to inflict on him was the torture of shame; what she had inflicted was the torture of boredom. — Ayn Rand

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth. — Hilary Mantel

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner — H.L. Mencken

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face. — Rowan Atkinson

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power. — Alexander Berkman