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Quotes About Harmless

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
~ Liz Smith
Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
~ Adam Cohen
I was more terrified than ever; but perhaps,' he said, 'the best way to confront our fears is to put them in costume, so to speak; to translate them, for the simple act of translation very often renders things harmless.
~ Rachel Cusk
I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.
~ Sam Neill
A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.
~ Judith Fitzgerald
The Central Indian Trifakirs, though something of a pest, were quite harmless. They always appeared in threes, of course, and made a practice of handing out muddle-headed philosophical tracts.
~ Walter Moers
There is, however, a familiar form of playfulness often associated with situations protected from consequence-where no matter what we do (within certain limits), nothing will come of it. This is not playing so much as playing at, a harmless disregard for social constraints. While this is by no means excluded from infinite play, it is not the same as infinite play.
~ James P Carse
To be accomplished but resented. Or to hide behind the more outré of their pursuits and be considered erratic but harmless.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Earth: mostly harmless
~ Douglas Adams
He struck most of the friends he had made on Earth as an eccentric, but a harmless one—an unruly boozer with some oddish habits. For instance, he would often gate-crash university parties, get badly drunk and start making fun of any astrophysicists he could find till he got thrown out.
~ Douglas Adams
What? This cleric wants to give Jennie religious instruction? How peverse!" I explained that he was really a harmless old man who Jennie was quite fond of. Dr. Prentiss found the whole idea diabolical. It would ruin her experiment! Well, I thought about that for all of two seconds and decided that what was right for Jennie was not necessarily right for Dr. Prentiss and her experiments. There are times, you know, when a mother simply has to do what she thinks is right.
~ Douglas Preston
Ellen DeGeneres is brilliant. She's funny, she's warm and she doesn't hurt anybody on her show.
~ Janet Hubert
Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States.
~ Richard Dawkins
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
~ Albert Einstein
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her
~ Sonya Sones
Witches aren't like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.
~ Terry Pratchett
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.
~ Gary Zukav
J. Gresham Machen solemnly warned, False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the Gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation to be controlled by ideas which prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion.1
~ William Lane Craig
They saw five men with travelling bags making more noise than a revolution and being harmless.
~ William McIlvanney
The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.
~ William Butler Yeats
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
~ John Donne
I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.
~ Molly Harper