Benign Quotes

121 quotes by 108 authors

• No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart — Shannon Hale
• It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny… — Emma Forrest
• At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied… — Albert Camus
• There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects. — Cassandra Clare
• I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's… — Rick Yancey
• You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly… — Ben Cross
• Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross… — Clare Balding
• Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him. — Richard Dawkins
• Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they… — Rebecca MacKinnon
• The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes… — Malcolm Gladwell
• Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly positive press. — Andy Coulson
• What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful… — Michael Leunig
• The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the… — Joseph P. Bradley
• How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more… — Richard LaGravenese
• There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think… — Martin Seligman
• In 1878, after having finished my course of instruction at the School of Military Medicine of Val-de-Grace, I was sent to Algeria and put in… — Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport. — Ariel Pink
• Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success. — Malcolm Mclaren
• Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign. — Chevy Chase

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 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
• 2 Benign Quotes by Woody Allen
• 2 Benign Quotes by James Norwood Pratt
• 1 Benign Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge
• 1 Benign Quote by Stephen Fry
• 1 Benign Quote by William A. Dembski
• 1 Benign Quote by Mignon McLaughlin
• 1 Benign Quote by Bill Bryson
• 1 Benign Quote by Tom Lehrer
• 1 Benign Quote by Jonathan Raban
• 1 Benign Quote by John Milton
• 1 Benign Quote by Ken Robinson
• 1 Benign Quote by Michael McKean
• 1 Benign Quote by Michele Bardsley
• 1 Benign Quote by Michael Cunningham
• 1 Benign Quote by Azar Nafisi
• 1 Benign Quote by Steig Larsson
• 1 Benign Quote by Frederick Lenz
• 1 Benign Quote by Shannon Hale