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Mills Quotes

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The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
Bill Haywood

Authors on Mills Quotes: George Herbert Barbara Jordan Maureen O'Hara Andy Burnham Golo Mann Chen-Ning Yang Fanny Kemble Edith Sitwell Mary Stewart Ayaan Hirsi Ali Henry James Chuck Knox Mahatma Gandhi Eileen Favorite Todd Gitlin James Thomas Fields Colin MacInnes Orison Swett Marden Elaine de Kooning Trenton Lee Stewart Percy Jewett Burrell Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bertolt Brecht Isaac Bashevis Singer Charles A. Beard Richard Chenevix Trench Dale Jamieson John Milton Bill Haywood Charlie Munger Oliver Burkeman
2.
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
Todd Gitlin

3.
Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.
Percy Jewett Burrell

4.
In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
Eileen Favorite

5.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
Chen-Ning Yang

6.
The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
Maureen O'Hara

7.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
Mary Stewart

8.
Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
James Thomas Fields

9.
In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

10.
We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.
Charlie Munger

11.
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
Orison Swett Marden

12.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
Charles A. Beard

13.
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
Edith Sitwell

14.
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
Elaine de Kooning

15.
Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again?
Trenton Lee Stewart

16.
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
Fanny Kemble

17.
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
Barbara Jordan

18.
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.
Oliver Burkeman

19.
We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over
Andy Burnham

20.
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

21.
I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.
Chuck Knox

22.
God's mill grinds slow, but sure.
George Herbert

23.
I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

24.
Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
Colin MacInnes

25.
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.
Golo Mann

26.
The idea that Bentham and Mill were maximizers is the greatest stretch of all. They were progressivists, committed to improving the societies in which they lived, not utopian maximizers.
Dale Jamieson

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

28.
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
Henry James

29.
Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.
Richard Chenevix Trench

30.
I never wanted to be run of the mill.
Barbara Jordan

31.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
George Herbert

32.
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
John Milton

33.
The Mill gets by going.
George Herbert

34.
The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.
Mahatma Gandhi