Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful,… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his… — Benjamin Waterhouse Copy Share Image
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning. — John Milton Copy Share Image
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time,… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign,… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working… — Simon Calder Copy Share Image
“Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
