Top 100 Millard Quotes
#1. I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
Utah Phillips
#2. I am getting to what I am getting to! Millard snapped.
Ransom Riggs
#3. I could taste Millard's blood in the water.
Ransom Riggs
#4. Millard! Who's the prime minister?"
"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?"
"What's the capital of Burma?"
"Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?"
"Good! When's your birthday?"
"Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!
Ransom Riggs
#5. We'll figure something out," She replied.
Millard sighed. "Oh lovely. Improvised suicide.
Ransom Riggs
#6. Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
Barack Obama
#7. Millard! Are you all right? Say something!"
"I must apologize," he said. "It seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.
Ransom Riggs
#8. The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package, Roosevelt sneered.
Candice Millard
#9. If it was not a good idea, it was at least an interesting one.
Candice Millard
#10. Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.
Glenda Millard
#11. The hobo fell to his knees, trying to stem the flow of blood from his wide-open palm. It was impossible, and the pain was like nothing he'd ever felt before, even though he'd once been an altar boy.
Adam Millard
#13. I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.
Glenda Millard
#14. I couldn't remember anyone hugging me like that before.
Glenda Millard
#15. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.
Glenda Millard
#16. As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
Candice Millard
#17. A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.
Millard Drexler
#18. We sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.
'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.
Glenda Millard
#19. Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Graff-'
'Not Graff,' the big man snapped, looking annoyed. 'The name is Garff-Garff!'
'Say, that's good,' the hunter said. 'Garff-Garff- that's even better than bow-wow. Do you know any other animal imitations?
Joe Millard
#20. Squat, thick-bodied, swarthy, with the unmistakable stamp of Indian blood on his features, he was the dread Apachito himself- Mister Fifteen Thousand Dollars, in the language of the bounty hunting trade.
Joe Millard
#21. Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
Millard Fuller
#22. The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
Millard Fillmore
#23. We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.
Millard Fuller
#24. Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith come alive. Helping others have a decent place to live is one way to do that and it doesn't take too long for others to recognize it, too.
Millard Fuller
#25. I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.
Glenda Millard
#27. Squat, swarthy and powerful, the bandit was a mixture of Comanche and Comanchero bloods, revealing the most sadistic and savage traits of both.
Joe Millard
#28. Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness ...
Millard Kaufman
#29. In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.
Millard Fuller
#30. I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.
Millard Drexler
#32. There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.
Millard Fuller
#33. God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Millard Fillmore
#34. I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk.
Millard Johnson
#35. Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
#36. The author points out strikingly different reactions to calamity. While many passengers of a devastating shipwreck were thankful to be alive, future presidential assassin Charles Guiteau saw his being spared as proof of his exceptionalism rather than of the grace from which he benefited.
Candice Millard
#37. Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.
Millard Sheets
#38. Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?
Millard Sheets
#39. Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
Millard Fillmore
#40. We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it.
Millard Fuller
#41. Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.
Glenda Millard
#42. The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...
Glenda Millard
#43. I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.
Millard Fillmore
#44. Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.
Millard Fuller
#45. I never had anything before this all started. I've lived in No-Man's-Land for thirty years.
Glenda Millard
#46. I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...
Glenda Millard
#47. The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
Millard Fillmore
#48. I think Saturday may be Latin for stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.
Bart Millard
#49. She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.
Candice Millard
#50. Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.
Millard Fuller
#51. I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her one last chance for ever.
Glenda Millard
#52. If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.
Keith Millard
#53. But saying stuff, even if it's good, isn't enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you needed plans.
Glenda Millard
#54. Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
Millard Fillmore
#55. No one will ever make your movie. They will only make their movie.
Millard Kaufman
#56. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
Millard Fillmore
#57. During his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor.
Candice Millard
#58. It's like waking up and finding there's a war on. Nothing's the way it used to be and it's difficult to get your balance. That's why I held Billy's hand.
Glenda Millard
#59. I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.
Glenda Millard
#60. I came to know Christ when I was 13 years old at a youth camp I attended. I may not have known much about Him, but I knew I was saved by grace and that, because of the cross, I had a hope like no other. I cannot imagine life without Him.
Bart Millard
#61. The man in the middle was short and stocky, with swarthy skin and a black mustache that drooped almost to his chin. A colorful Mexican serape was draped across his saddle, and he wore a straw sombrero with an enormous brim.
Joe Millard
#62. Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques.
Candice Millard
#63. Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.
Millard Drexler
#64. Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.
Millard Sheets
#65. For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
Millard Fuller
#66. I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.
Keith Millard
#67. Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
Glenda Millard
#68. Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
Candice Millard
#70. I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.
Glenda Millard
#73. More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Candice Millard
#74. I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.
Millard Fuller
#75. If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.
Millard Drexler
#76. Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.
Glenda Millard
#77. As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Candice Millard
#78. I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.
Millard Kaufman
#79. What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
Millard Drexler
#80. I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
Millard Drexler
#81. Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times.
Glenda Millard
#82. I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.
Bart Millard
#84. Tonight, I am a private citizen. To-morrow I shall be called to assume new responsibilities, and on the day after, the broadside of the world's wrath will strike. It will strike hard. I know it, and you will know it.
Candice Millard
#85. It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller
#86. In Garfield's experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past. In
Candice Millard
#87. God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.
Millard Fillmore
#88. I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.
Millard Fuller
#89. The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
Millard Fillmore
#90. People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.
Millard Drexler
#92. He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.
Glenda Millard
#93. How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
Ransom Riggs
#94. When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
Candice Millard
#95. The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just my eyes, and then I saw the meaning of the dance. I wanted to stop looking because it was so sad, but I couldn't because it was so beautiful.
Glenda Millard
#96. 'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
Candice Millard
#97. Some people, like my dad, have invisible scars; others, like Tia, have scars you can see.
Glenda Millard
#98. The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
Millard Fillmore
#99. You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.
Glenda Millard
#100. The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.
Millard Drexler
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