Benign Quotes

121 quotes by 108 authors

• I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people. — Moby
• It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter… — Moby
• Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign. — Moby
• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said… — Rachel Nichols
• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. — Carl Sagan
• Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian
• The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico
• When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,… — William Wordsworth
• It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled… — Albert Camus
• I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty… — Audrey Niffenegger
• I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign… — Daniel Webster
• I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the… — Emily Bronte
• The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. — Joanne Harris
• I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor… — Brennan Manning
• I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth… — Stephen Fry
• I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign… — Albert Camus
• But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud… — Bill Bryson
• So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning. — John Milton
• Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects." "Seven sacred sects,"… — Michele Bardsley
• Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose,… — Steig Larsson

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 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
• 2 Benign Quotes by Malcolm Mclaren
• 2 Benign Quotes by William Wordsworth
• 1 Benign Quote by Alec Baldwin
• 1 Benign Quote by George Berkeley
• 1 Benign Quote by Jonathan Kozol
• 1 Benign Quote by Keith Richards
• 1 Benign Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• 1 Benign Quote by Cliff Stearns
• 1 Benign Quote by Rachel Nichols
• 1 Benign Quote by John Howard Griffin
• 1 Benign Quote by Edward Said
• 1 Benign Quote by Carl Sagan
• 1 Benign Quote by Max Roach
• 1 Benign Quote by Antonin Scalia
• 1 Benign Quote by Clarence Thomas
• 1 Benign Quote by Serj Tankian
• 1 Benign Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• 1 Benign Quote by James Lovelock