Quotes About Benign

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

Related to fertility, the bat was known in Zapotec as bigidiri zinnia—flesh butterfly (mariposa de carne)—and was a benign god.

But the hospital also offers the mild, oddly gratifying trauma of sudden stabilization—a transfer out of the too familiar surroundings of home, where all is anxiety and discord, into an orderly and benign detention where one's only duty is to try to get well.

Plundering history to deliver modern indictments serves no rational or benign purpose.

Hell's orgy is the apotheosis of the neutral. Black Sabbath joy is the joy of losing oneself in the atonal. What still frightened me was that even that very unpunishable horror would be benignly reabsorbed into the abyss of time, into the abyss of unending heights, into the profound abyss of God: absorbed into the core of an indifference. . . . an interested indifference, an attainable indifference. It was an extremely energetic indifference.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what might befall them, life was basically good and the world benign.

Fat had witnessed a benign power which had invaded this world. No other term fitted it: the benign power, whatever it was, had invaded this world, like a champion ready to do battle. That terrified him but it also excited his joy because he understood what it meant. Help had come.

Erskine's freckles did incredible diplomatic work for him. Howard had often wished for a similarly benign face to show the world.

Tricksters have a key function in life and art. I maintain that if a trickster pranks her way into your life, it's time to pay attention. They are the definition of duality. Both heroic and villainous, foolish and wise, benign and malicious. Both lovable and hateful. Friendly and fearsome. Both light and dark.

The small percentage of dogs that bite people is monumental proof that the dog is the most benign, forgiving creature on earth.

Nolly Wolfstan, private detective, had the teeth of a god and a face so unfortunate that it argued convincingly against the existence of a benign deity.

A trained surgeon is also a potential killer, and an important bit of the training lies in accepting the fact. Your intent is entirely benign—or at least you hope so—but you are laying violent hands on someone, and you must be ruthless in order to do it effectively. And sometimes the person under your hands will die, and knowing that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you do it anyway. I

You never heard of benign hypocrisy? I thought they teach you stuff like that when you go to minister school. Since you mention gassing away about morality. That's a minister's job, too, isn't it?

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.

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

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas and liver, as well as Parkinson's disease, arthritis

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

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

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

It is better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

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

That there's an ever-present, yet sometimes imperceptible, benign intelligence that pervades the enormous vastness of reality, from the center of the earth to the farthest reaches of space, yet given the immeasurable scope and seemingly impossible magnificence of just what we can detect, it's safe to say that everything has a reason, there have been no mistakes, love makes everything better, and what doesn't make sense yet one day will.