Mildest Quotes

#1. Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.

William Cowper

#2. Tap Life on the shoulders and fall a little more in love.

Rachel Hawthorne

#3. The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

Robert Mankoff

#4. Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.

Allan G. Johnson

#5. The choice is not, Reich argues, between a governed and an ungoverned market, but between a market governed by laws favoring monopolistic companies and one governed by those favoring small business.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#6. A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up our noses at this feeling, as if it were wholly base. On its mildest level it appeals to everyone's sense of justice. Once

C.S. Lewis

#7. I've got heaps of dreams.

Abbie Cornish

#8. Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

John Frusciante

#9. Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#10. Finding peace and happiness is a journey you need to take, there is no quick fix

Sandra Shamas

#11. One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. Modern 'liberalism' is strikingly illiberal; the high priests of 'tolerance' are increasingly intolerant of even the mildest dissent; and those who profess to 'celebrate diversity' coerce ever more ruthlessly a narrow homogeneity.

Mark Steyn

#13. I made the Cowardly Lion look like the terminator.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. They have never known pain, he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely.

Lois Lowry

#15. When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

Sarah Fielding

#17. I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

Hillary Clinton

#18. The people who had once dwelled within these lands had not met easy or pleasant ends. She could feel their pain even now, whispering through the stones, rippling through the water. That marsh beast that had snuck up on her last night was the mildest of the horrors here.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. Over the years, I've worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.

Jill Abramson

#20. Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.

Ameen Rihani

#21. March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.

L.M. Montgomery

#22. In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

Victoria Osteen

#23. The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

#25. Really it was like trying to solve a crime in the Stock Exchange, the way the mildest mention of sex interrupted business.

Peter Dickinson

#26. The mildest allegiance was proof one parent was the rightest and the most beloved, and I refused to call the winner and the loser in their war.

Joshilyn Jackson

#27. Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.

Charles G. Dawes

#28. There's no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other people's beliefs, ideas, actions and freedoms.

Keith Harmon

#29. The mildest tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood-thirsty when in a boat.

Jerome K. Jerome

#30. Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Paton

#31. At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Victor Hugo

#32. Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.

Heinrich Heine

#33. He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly.

Charles Dickens