Millstone Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by lifeâ€™s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our… — T. Davis Bunn
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
He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal. — Desiderius Erasmus
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
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
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. — Robert Plant
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
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
I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration.â€ He stroked her hair soothingly. â€œYou will never be a millstone about my neck.… — Elizabeth Hoyt
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
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

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