Richard Cromwell Quotes

#1. Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

John F. Kennedy

#2. If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Robert Musil

#3. I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do - I can die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. We do not have the right in the name of social justice to bore anyone to death.

Assata Shakur

#5. The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes.

George MacDonald

#6. It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on.
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Hilary Mantel

#7. I write every day whether somebody pays me or not. I write every day whether or not self-doubt is kicking my ass. It's what writers must do.

Don Roff

#8. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

Davy Crockett