I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence. — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly… — Andy Coulson Copy Share Image
According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain,… — Daniel Dennett 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
the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels).… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects."… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters,… — Wole Soyinka 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
... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“BOTOLPHS (pl.n) Huge benign tumours which archdeacons and old chemistry teachers affect to wear on the sides of their noses.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, — Alec Baldwin 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
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
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence… — Freeman Dyson 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
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant,… — David F. Wells 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
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of… — Rose George Copy Share Image
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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