“The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.' — Woody Allen 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
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico 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
The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. — Timothy Geithner 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
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 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
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
Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
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
I would say, as far as heckling, there's benign and there's malignant; like tumors man. Sometimes you get really nice hecklers. I'd… — Godfrey 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
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
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia 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
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
At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared.… — Anonymous 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
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
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
