In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy… — William James Copy Share Image
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
If the role is right and it's another situation of having a benevolent genius at the head of it, someone who likes… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with… — Tarsem Singh Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes… — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Every religion, Eastern and Western, has the same archetype of benevolent guides in Heaven helping us, whether they are called bodhisattvas, deities,… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
