“The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign. — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material. — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television. — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an… — Eckhart Tolle 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
Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I… — Tommy Rettig Copy Share Image
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It's very benign, it seems, to think, "There's a tree." In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness'… — Michael Hastings 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
In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
O admirable Mother of God! How many sins have I committed for which thou hast obtained pardon for me, and how many… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I… — Jim Shepard 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
The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or… — Francis Daniels Moore 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
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For… — Bill Bryson 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
Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character,… — Ben Cross Copy Share Image
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.) — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
