Harmlessly Quotes

#1. Religion does not censure or exclude
Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

William Cowper

#2. I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith.

Peace Pilgrim

#3. In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring. He lives all alone with his streaked cat in Gray's Inn, and people call him harmlessly mad.

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. Until at last, they could pause and let the arrows fall harmlessly around them.

Susan Dennard

#5. For Pan! Grover rushed in from the right. He threw his sheep bone, which bounced harmlessly off the monster's forehead.

Rick Riordan

#6. Plant
it
It will sprout
But forget about the rustic festivities
For the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal through
the compact generations

Jean Cocteau

#7. There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Robert Breault

#8. Koudelka puzzled over this attempted readjustment of his point of view, then let it bounce harmlessly off his impermeable habits of thought.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#9. Culture was now largely a matter of how to keep people harmlessly distracted when they were not working.

Terry Eagleton

#10. The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

Stephane Mallarme

#11. Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and an activation center evolved in the pons to turn on the R-complex, but harmlessly, during sleep.

Carl Sagan

#12. IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

Morihei Ueshiba

#13. An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into the indefinite future.

Robert Gilman

#14. We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

Jo Deurbrouck

#15. this window here, a boy once yelled, Watch

Anthony Doerr

#16. Where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third,

Italo Calvino

#17. All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.

Fredrik Backman

#18. It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

Keith Rabois

#19. He told me that if you yelled out "JAMBA!" at full volume, all the employees would yell back "JUICE!" He lied.

Morgan Matson

#20. I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.

Noah Hawley

#21. Do I wish you would've left him a long time ago? Hell yeah. But there's something to be said for someone brave enough to take on that kind of darkness alone.

Steph Campbell

#22. Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.

Nick Davies