Mills Quotes - Page 5

• Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Justice, Waiting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.697, Library of America

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• You look so out of your element. (Savitar) I am out of my element. Much like you in a Seattle Goth club. (Acheron) I’m never out of my element, Atlantean. And it must be dire indeed to get you in shorties, and on a board. One day I’m actually going to get you to say ‘Rad four-mill steamer, dude! (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  One Day, Boards, Rad

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Acheron”, p.363, Hachette UK

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• But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

  Neal Stephenson

  Suicidal, Cereal, Long

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Spring, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.35, Discovery House

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• Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only brother was killed in the flour mill or when his children died, stronger even than when he was a child and it first occurred to him that he must try to understand what it could mean not to be alive -- to be not in darkness, not in unfeeling -- to be not being, not to be.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Brother, Children, Mean

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2003). “Everything is Illuminated”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Daddy, Take Me, Mysterious Benedict Society

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• As long as you cling to your self, you will wander right and left, day and night, for thousands of years; and when, after all that effort, you finally open your eyes, you will see your self, through inherent defects, wandering round itself like the ox in a mill; but, if, once freed of your self, you finally get down to work, this door will open to you within two minutes.

  Sanai

  Powerful, Eye, Night

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• I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

  Johannes Kepler

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm sure it's just a fluke" "Doesn't make any difference whether it's a fluke or not. It shouldn't have happened. When a person buys a box of lucky charms he's got expectations

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Believe, Writing, Lucky Charms

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• Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Falling In Love, Book, People

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• Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.

  John Searle

  Science, Technology, Childhood

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• View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Running, Buddhist, Opportunity

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Loss, Technology

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.44, CUP Archive

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• How you feel? How you feel? How you feel? 25 sittin on 25 mill.

  Drake

  Humble, How You Feel, Bragging

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• It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Struggle, Tired, Mouths

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• The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Forever, Wheels, Turns

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.252, Grove Press

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• If skills sold truth be told
  I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
  Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil)
  I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Skills, Common Sense

  "Song: 'Moment of Clarity'". 2003.

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• "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Mother, Fear, Rain

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• the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Angel, Rumor, Devil

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, libertarianism is a utopian worldview based on an economic-determinist vision of history. Unlike Marxism, libertarianism is highly specific in its predictions about the transition to the utopian world order, rendering it vulnerable to fact.

  Michael Lind

  Order, Vision, Transition

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• The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in "On Liberty." The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Political

  "Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

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• In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

  Eileen Favorite

  Running, Fiction

  Eileen Favorite (2009). “The Heroines: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, War, Cutting

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• What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Book, Men

  Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

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