Millstone Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.
— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even…
— Ian Mckellen
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Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
— Rumi
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I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our…
— T. Davis Bunn
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy…
— Vince Cable
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on…
— Graham Greene
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The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.
— Robert Plant
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You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the…
— Rumi
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If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them…
— Tite Kubo
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I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration.†He stroked her hair soothingly. “You will never be a millstone about my neck.…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to…
— Frances Hardinge
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Loving Allah resembles a brook in a desert with no millstone, and that is why there are few water-drawers. The lover usually wants to be…
— Ibn Al Qayyim
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Who Wrote These Millstone Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Millstone Quotes as follows: