Harmless Quotes

210 quotes by 190 authors

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into… — Eric Hoffer
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be… — Avicenna
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying… — Herman Melville
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath… — Carl Bernstein
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them.… — Robbie Robertson
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names… — Robbie Robertson
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy,… — Phyllis Bottome
Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it — Bill Bailey
I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation. — Ezra Miller
Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean. — Josh Groban
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are… — Bernard of Clairvaux
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. — Kingsley Amis
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants… — Geneen Roth
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in… — Sara Craven
America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend. — Bernard Lewis
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that… — Alfred Jarry
Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to… — Russell Kirk

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