Benign Quotes

121 quotes by 108 authors

• A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign. — Nan Fairbrother
• The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign… — Mitch McConnell
• When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
• To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success — Malcolm Mclaren
• the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free… — Marilyn Ferguson
• Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that… — Tommy Rettig
• I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black… — Kyle MacLachlan
• Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t… — Daniel Craig
• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign.… — Maggie Smith
• New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, — Alec Baldwin
• The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.' — Woody Allen
• Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either… — Antonin Scalia
• Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of… — George Washington
• I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on… — David Foster Wallace
• ... Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful… — Gautama Buddha
• I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can… — Vincent Bugliosi
• Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make… — Mark Steyn

Who Wrote These Benign Quotes

108 authors contributed a total of 121 Benign Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Benign Quotes by Moby
• 4 Benign Quotes by Albert Camus
• 2 Benign Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren
• 2 Benign Quotes by William Wordsworth
• 2 Benign Quotes by Woody Allen
• 2 Benign Quotes by James Norwood Pratt
• 2 Benign Quotes by H. L. Mencken
• 2 Benign Quotes by Nina Fedoroff
• 2 Benign Quotes by Martin Seligman
• 1 Benign Quote by Mitch McConnell
• 1 Benign Quote by Freeman Dyson
• 1 Benign Quote by Ted Bell
• 1 Benign Quote by Malcolm Gladwell
• 1 Benign Quote by Gregory S. Paul
• 1 Benign Quote by Vladimir Putin
• 1 Benign Quote by Andy Coulson
• 1 Benign Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Benign Quote by Thomas Berry
• 1 Benign Quote by Brené Brown
• 1 Benign Quote by Michael Leunig
• 1 Benign Quote by Marilyn Ferguson
• 1 Benign Quote by Warren Buffett
• 1 Benign Quote by Daniel Pauly
• 1 Benign Quote by Joseph P. Bradley
• 1 Benign Quote by Tommy Rettig