Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first,… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! — Hosea Ballou 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
We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The core problem isn’t the fact that we’re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. — William McKinley Copy Share Image
Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent… — Srikumar Rao 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
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — Anonymous 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
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an… — J. M. E. McTaggart 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
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
