Top 229 Benign Quotes & Sayings

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.

'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage your brain.

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

I believe in one energy that is benign, loving, warm and nurturing power.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

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 can to keep it.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

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 appearance of the world there is a benign power.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material.

Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

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 between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

I look suspicious if I dress in sort of benign clothes, going to the airport.

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 be much fun.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

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 Creator.

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

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 indifference of the world.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

Dynamic benign neglect.

Unused creativity is not benign.

I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

I always like how a seemingly benign activity that was meant to be fun can turn into drama.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

The U.S. is the most benign great power we will see in our lifetimes, and it is important for global peace that its leaders continue to value being viewed as benign.

My wife and I thought we were in love, but it turned out to be benign

Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

I look like a very nice, benign Jewish man-boy.

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.