#mild

You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch...someone whoes fingers are a poem. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#beautiful #boy #love #mild #poem

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives. ↗

— Erik Larson

#family

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#administration #eight #four #had #humane

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#being #being funny #disability #funny #get

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.' ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #bunch #could #einstein #end

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#disease #dismissed #first #hear #i

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. ↗

— David Hume

#always #commodities #condition #easy #every

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#amiable #dark #exerted #laid #malevolent

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#depression #enough #guess #had #i