Mild Quotes

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But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff thatâ€™s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for… — Mark Steyn
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you. — Jonathan Kent
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of… — William McKinley
Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Do you think George Bush actually knows who Gordon Brown is? He probably just thinks Tony Blair's put on weight and had a mild stroke. — Frankie Boyle
You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts… — George Orwell
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry… — Mo Yan
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be… — Bartolome de las Casas
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when… — John Milton
Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us… — Cecil Frances Alexander
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of… — Jane Austen
By todayâ€™s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum.… — Joseph Sobran
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women. — Joe Shuster
Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense. — Edward Rutledge
The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak,… — Confucius
I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and created.… — Franco Zeffirelli
You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are… — Jim Rohn

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