We're The Miller Quotes

#1. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. - Author: Jeff Miller

#2. We're all just a decision or two away from destroying the relationships that are most important to us and the people we love. And most of the time, we never even know it. - Author: Lauren Miller

#3. The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. - Author: Henry Miller

#4. Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other. - Author: Donald Miller

#5. We had a work session [in "Moneyball" ]where about 30 scouts came in and out.We're all riffing, and after it, [director] Bennett Miller said, 'Look at these faces: This is what we have to do - we gotta get these guys in the scene. - Author: Brad Pitt

#6. For the foreseeable future, we're going to need oil products because I don't like the idea of hydrogen cars. I'm not sure I want to be cruising around a mall parking lot filled with a thousand mini-Hindenburgs. - Author: Dennis Miller

#7. If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch. - Author: Henry Miller

#8. We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. - Author: Henry Miller

#9. We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and recognizing the consequences of their being humiliated are by no means intellectual matters; otherwise, their importance would long since have been generally recognized. - Author: Alice Miller

#10. The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him. - Author: J.R. Miller

#11. By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey. - Author: Donald Miller

#12. Back when we were more in the industrial vein, it was almost like I had to hide the fact that I could sing. Now, I've just sort of embraced the fact that I can sing and I'm not a screamer or hiding it behind any effects, this is just what I sound like. - Author: Jason C. Miller

#13. The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. - Author: Jeff Miller

#14. We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues. - Author: Frank Miller

#15. Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. - Author: Alice Miller

#16. Overcoming the world. And thus finding it. For we must not only be in it and above it, but of it too. To love it for what it is- how difficult! And yet it's the first, the only task. Evade it, and you are lost. Lose yourself in it and you are free. - Author: Henry Miller

#17. We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist. - Author: Frank Miller

#18. I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either! - Author: Jonny Lee Miller

#19. I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.' - Author: John Benjamin Hickey

#20. Avengers was cool. I liked it. But I feel like we haven't seen this side of the superhero universe. So I think fans want to see it, too. If everything is perfect and shiny and everybody has Quinjets and mansions, it just gets a little ... I don't know. I'm ready for something different. - Author: Timothy Miller

#21. We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. - Author: Kenneth R. Miller

#22. Brynne was naturally submissive to me. She accepted what I wanted to give her - the Dom in me had found my muse, and it was just one more reason we were perfect together. - Author: Raine Miller

#23. Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent. - Author: Paul E. Miller

#24. We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity. - Author: Rebecca Miller

#25. One morning, I woke to find Chiron gone. This was not unusual. He often rose before we did, to milk the goats or pick fruits for breakfast. I left the cave so that Achilles - Author: Madeline Miller

#26. Maybe the story of our life is what we make of it. I mean, we're dealt the rain and the sun, but maybe it's up to us to push away the clouds in order to see the rainbow. - Author: Laura Miller

#27. Don Miller says we're called to hold our hands against the wounds of a broken world, to stop the bleeding. i agree so greatly. - Author: Jamie Tworkowski

#28. I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional. - Author: Wentworth Miller

#29. There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy. - Author: Donald Miller

#30. People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same. - Author: Madeline Miller

#31. That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present. - Author: Lauren Miller

#32. The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they're doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner. - Author: John Jackson Miller

#33. You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories. - Author: Donald Miller

#34. I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for. - Author: Ezra Miller

#35. Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger. - Author: Dennis Miller

#36. Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton. - Author: Geoffrey Miller

#37. What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We are all like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given - it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral. - Author: Donald Miller

#38. And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics. - Author: Shannon Miller

#39. Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts. - Author: Alice Miller

#40. You cant ever know anyone completely, can you? I mean, we're ever changing, maturing, growing ... Each day we're confronted by new outside influences that have us forever making decisions that take us one or two steps in one direction or the other - continually altering our course. - Jason Miller - Author: Ethan Day

#41. I cannot tell you how proud watching that [Iraqi] war coverage makes me. I know a lot of people are saying that they think that it's, that you know what we're doing is imperialistic. I watch the way we handle ourselves over there and I've never felt more patriotic in my life. - Author: Dennis Miller

#42. The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we're together. - Author: Sarah Miller

#43. I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us. - Author: Donald Miller

#44. You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day. - Author: Romeo Miller

#45. With his arms resting across the back. We're witnesses, - Author: Linda Lael Miller

#46. When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people. - Author: Isabel Miller

#47. We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world. - Author: Henry Miller

#48. In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall. - Author: Laura Miller

#49. I've tried to maintain a healthy image but not necessarily a size because as women, we're all different sizes. I go for being the healthy size; whatever that is for you. It's important to embrace that and love your body for what it is. Each woman has her own body. - Author: Marisa Miller

#50. And I know your next move, I watch you so much, 'There's been no proven link between the secular state of Iraq and al-Qaeda!' Come on. They both think we're Satan. Isn't that a nice starting point? Why are you so loathe to believe they might have each other on lunatic speed dial? - Author: Dennis Miller

#51. It's encouraging to watch what people will do to contribute to a love story. It's as though we universally recognize the union of souls is worth sacrificing for. - Author: Donald Miller

#52. Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road.
Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass - Author: John Ringo

#53. And as we swam, or played, or talked, a feeling would come. It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright where they were dull. - Author: Madeline Miller

#54. That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together. - Author: Jeff Miller

#55. The tools of aggression we have do not work as well in bloated, multi-way pots. - Author: Ed Miller

#56. Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission - Author: Calvin Miller

#57. Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general. - Author: Virgil Miller Newton

#58. There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story. - Author: Donald Miller

#59. Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish. - Author: Donalyn Miller

#60. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. - Author: Alice Miller

#61. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. - Author: Harlan Miller

#62. I think Alice Miller's Drama of the Gifted Child is one of the books read by nearly every therapist. Everyone's jaw drops when they read Miller's dead-on description of why we became therapists. (...) I wish more people were familiar with her work. - Author: Ryan Howes

#63. We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come ... - Author: Isobel Miller Kuhn

#64. We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free. - Author: Donald Miller

#65. Beauty is not always as perfect as we imagine it to be, but it can be damn close if we learn to accept the scary parts or the ugly parts. - Author: Nick Miller

#66. We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity. - Author: Andrew Miller

#67. Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year. - Author: Laura Miller

#68. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. - Author: Henry Miller

#69. We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it. - Author: Donald Miller

#70. In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born. - Author: Frank Miller

#71. Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but not with a Glock 9 millimeter? - Author: Zell Miller

#72. In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another. - Author: Jeff Miller

#73. My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid. - Author: Christa Miller

#74. I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce. - Author: Christa Miller

#75. I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip. - Author: Liz Miller

#76. Anything that we consider to be an accomplishment takes effort to achieve. If it were easy, it would not be nearly as gratifying. What is hardship at the moment will add to our sense of achievement in the end. By - Author: David Miller

#77. We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction. - Author: Steve Miller

#78. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. - Author: Henry Miller

#79. But there is so much more to do for the city we love ... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination. - Author: Laura Miller

#80. Hydarnes: When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun!
Leonidas: Good; then we will fight in the shade. - Author: Frank Miller

#81. Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. - Author: Donald Miller

#82. We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen. - Author: Shannon Miller

#83. When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out. - Author: Donald Miller

#84. Our responsibility is not to speculate endlessly about the possible futures of our daughter species, but to become, with as much panache as we can afford, their ancestors. - Author: Geoffrey Miller

#85. If we really want our students to become wild readers, independent of our support and oversight, sometimes the best thing we can do is get out of the way. - Author: Donalyn Miller

#86. The Innocent Mage is come , and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything - Author: Karen Miller

#87. Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers. - Author: Gary Miller

#88. We don't get montages or grand finales. We just eat dinner and do the dishes, and absolutely no one's going to clap their hands about it. - Author: Kelsey Miller

#89. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? - Author: Walter M. Miller Jr.

#90. We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy. - Author: J.R. Miller

#91. If the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only Heaven knows. - Author: Donald Miller

#92. For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program. - Author: Alexey Miller

#93. This is Louisiana, we don't have basements because of the water level. - Author: Leah Rae Miller

#94. Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind. - Author: Joaquin Miller

#95. We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got a little bit of the devil in us. - Author: Jason Jack Miller

#96. Are you sure? I know you're all grown up, but you're still only seventeen. There are a lot of fish in the sea," he says as we pull into the driveway.
"I know, but I really like this fish. - Author: Leah Rae Miller

#97. For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth. - Author: Henry Miller

#98. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both. - Author: Madeline Miller

#99. Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor. - Author: John W. Miller

#100. SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME WE WILL NEVER FEEL loved until we drop the act, until we're willing to show our true selves to the people around us. - Author: Donald Miller