Mills Quotes - Page 8

• God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Woe, Grind, Retribution

  William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.123

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• Oh seize the instant time; you never will
  With water once passed by impel the mill.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Past, Water, Instant

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1865). “Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew”, p.303

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• I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

  Jason O'Mara

  Running, Average, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

  Cato the Younger

  Husband, Blessed, Lust

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• Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

  John Milton

  Slave, Gaza, Asks

  Samson Agonistes l. 40 (1671)

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• I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Hard Work, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.417, Penguin

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• Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Dark

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... They are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Sunday, Men, Clothes

  "The Old World in the New". Book by Edward Alsworth Ross, edition.cnn.com. 1914.

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• For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Coffee, Eye

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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• The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too smart to fully embrace Consequentialism. All of these great traditions in moral philosophy express strands of our moral consciousness and they should all be treated as research programs rather than as fully determinate views that can be leveled by a counterexample or by a clever argument.

  Dale Jamieson

  Clever, Philosophy, Smart

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Men, Inquiry, Too Much

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

  Colin MacInnes

  Wheels, Tradition, Ifs

  1961 England, Half English,'England, Half English'.

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• Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Men, Animal

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.68

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• Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Running, People, Stories

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• I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Power, Valleys, May

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.21

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• I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).

  Lloyd deMause

  Years, Political, Ignorant

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned about calls for civility. He points out that civility ends up getting defined by the people who are in charge. And you'll notice that when people argue for civility, they tend to actually believe that whatever they say is civil. And if they're angry about it, it's righteous rage. But if you say it and it's kind of sharp or mean, then it's incivil. ... And sometimes, disagreement-to be productive-can't be all that civil.

  Greg Lukianoff

  Believe, Book, Mean

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• No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.

  Sophie Hannah

  Years, Magic, England

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• Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Children, Reading, Important

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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 much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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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 majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

  Alan Ryan

  Men, Ideas, Roots

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• Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Water, Wheels, Politician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.302

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• 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. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Cutting, Thinking, One Day

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• [History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

  Edith Sitwell

  History, Sawdust, Terrible

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.68, A&C Black

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