Mill Quotes

152 quotes by 132 authors

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person. — Barbara Jordan
There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never… — Charles Dickens
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a… — John Fox, Jr.
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the… — William Butler Yeats
To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,… — Thomas Carlyle
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role… — Milton Friedman
In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew… — Lynn Garrison
The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy… — Bill Haywood
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. — George Herbert
Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that… — Guy Kawasaki
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. — Daniel D. Palmer
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. — Fanny Kemble
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in… — B. Traven
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it. — Larry Nelson
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism,… — Michael Lind
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its… — James Russell Lowell
Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your… — H. L. Mencken

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