Best Mills Quotations
170 Mills quotes by 153 unique authors
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A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On…
— Alan Ryan
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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!
— William Wordsworth
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One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread.…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light…
— Charles Dickens
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The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy…
— Millicent Fawcett
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All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
— Helen Suzman
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
— Edith Sitwell
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Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.
— Thomas Huxley
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The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to…
— Keith Miller
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Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and…
— Tom Cruise
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I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.
— Lee Daniels
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and…
— Laura Mennell
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Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade…
— Alan Ryan
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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.
— Percy Jewett Burrell
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In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
— Orison Swett Marden
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At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened…
— Jonathan Raban
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on…
— Grant Morrison
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In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory.…
— Rohinton Mistry
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