We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.
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.
More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.
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.
We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over
I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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.
In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
The mills of God grind slowly.
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.
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.
I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely. . . The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.
