Benevolent Quotes

172 quotes by 151 authors

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and… — Garrison Keillor
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please. — Jonathan Safran Foer
During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw… — Ann Brashares
The core problem isnâ€™t the fact that weâ€™re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and… — Francis Chan
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I donâ€™t know what else… — Donna Tartt
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent? — Confucius
For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers that include weather control and life creation. And theyâ€™re seen… — Jennifer Rardin
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when… — W. Somerset Maugham
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral… — Sigmund Freud
In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either… — N.K. Jemisin
It sounds silly, I know. But for me, the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly… — Ann Voskamp
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I speak and speak,â€ Marco says, â€œbut the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend… — Italo Calvino
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens… — C.S. Lewis
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. — C.S. Lewis
Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble. — Chinua Achebe
The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran… — Ernest Hemingway
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in… — Benjamin Franklin

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