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Quotes About Mild

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.
~ David Letterman
My books are so tame!
~ Sarah Dessen
It cannot but cheer the heart of the spouse, to consider, in all her infirmities and miseries she is subject to, that she hath a husband of a kind disposition, that knows how to give the honour of mild usage to the weaker vessel, that will be so far from rejecting her, because she is weak, that he will pity her the more. And as he is kind at all times, so especially when it is most seasonable; he will speak to her heart, 'especially in the wilderness,' Hos. ii. 24.
~ Richard Sibbes
In his younger days Grindhusen had been as stubborn and awkward as they come; now he was mild and stupid.
~ Knut Hamsun
I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
~ Alexandra Paul
Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.
~ Robert Webb
You daughter is prudish?" There was a gleam of triumph in Helena Winter's face. Fee grimaced. Prudish? No, not that she could claim. Far too mild a word for what she felt.
~ Mary Brock Jones, Torn
He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild frown of self-regard, a certain half-friendly awareness of being admired. It would live up to its fame. But really there was nothing to see. The upstairs windows seemed to ponder blankly on the reflections of clouds.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
Still, it's a nice day, uneventful in its niceness.
~ Jenny Han
Much of the population was in a mild stupor, depressed, congregating in small unstable groups, and prone to rumors of doom. But I don't know. That's pretty much every day here.
~ Jenny Offill
There was once a race of mythic arctic dwellers called the Hyperboreans. Their weather was mild, their trees bore fruit all year, and no one was ever sick. But after a thousand years, they grew bored of this life. They decked themselves in garlands and leaped off the cliffs into the sea.
~ Jenny Offill
We are a temperate state.
~ Benny Gantz
O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst...
~ Robert Frost
From his reading of history, Hamilton concluded a few essays later that war was an inescapable fact of life: "the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace."54
~ Ron Chernow
The days were lengthening. A wet primrose light lay over Wells Road. The lamps were like jewels, pale but piercingly bright. The air... fresh and mild.
~ Dorothy Whipple
I'm really not that fierce.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?
~ Chris LeDoux
Catfish's mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it 'blackened' Cajun style on so many restaurant menus - a trick which soon became a tired cliche.
~ Tom Douglas
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
~ Robert Southey
Joseph was faithful to the letter of the law, but he was also faithful to the spirit of the law. He was grace giving. He was loving. He was merciful. Would God the Father entrust the upbringing of his Son to anyone else? The Lord made certain that Mary was betrothed to a man who was 'mild, amiable, and tender.' A man like Joseph of Nazareth.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
~ Louis Bayard
One morning when the air was misleading and mild with hope....
~ Alice Hoffman
So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Past subjunctive forms are used when reporting: May/might as well can be translated using the verb poder. When the speaker expresses advice in a mild way (that is, the advice is not emphasized or insisted on), por las mismas can be added (usually preceding the verb poder):
~ Rogelio Vallecillos