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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.

    Jesus   Spring   Purpose  
    Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.35, Discovery House
  • Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

    Running   Clever   Unique  
    Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

    Mother   Father   College  
    Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006
  • Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

  • The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

    Life   Truth   Sleep  
  • Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

    Autumn   Past   Wind  
    Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com
  • Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

    Hippie   Rocks   People  
    Source: chicago.gopride.com
  • Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

    Grief   Writing   Joy  
    Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.
  • All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

    Peace   Stars   Flower  
    "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.
  • The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

    Running   Believe   Wheat  
  • What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

  • Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

    Vanity   Water   Yards  
    Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great. Letter 221, 1927.
  • Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.

    Martin Heidegger (1979). “Nietzsche: The will to power as art”
  • I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years. He believed he passed it down to my dad, who passed it down to me, that if he did what he was supposed to do, he'd have a good life and his kids would have an even better life. That is the American dream. That is what we believe in, that's what we've got to keep going generation after generation.

    Dream   Dad   Good Life  
    Source: time.com
  • I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

    Lonely   Horse   Stars  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
  • Away from the tumult of motor and mill I want to be care-free; I want to be still! I'm weary of doing things; weary of words I want to be one with the blossoms and birds.

    Nature   Bird   Care  
  • Got a house on the hill, cost a couple of mill, Juicy J got bank like Uncle Phil.

    Uncles   Couple   Rap  
    Song: One Of Those Nights, Album: Stay Trippy, 2013
  • There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

    Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press
  • Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.

    Fall   Ears   Bees  
    Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.215
  • I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

    Islands   Sugar   Mills  
    Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.125, University of Georgia Press
  • Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

    Real   Cities   Long  
  • It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.

    Steel   Easy   Mills  
  • I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.

    People   Trying   Earth  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.

    Morning   War   Player  
  • Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.259, e-artnow
  • Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.

    Moving   Wine   School  
  • I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

    Flow   Wheels   Sides  
  • 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

    Sleep   Fighting   Dark  
    'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'
  • In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

    Running   Fiction   Mills  
    Eileen Favorite (2009). “The Heroines: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
  • Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

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