Quotes About Harmlessness

#1. For what can more partake of the mysterious than an antipathy spontaneous and profound such as is evoked in certain exceptional mortals by the mere aspect of some other mortal, however harmless he may be, if not called forth by this very harmlessness itself?

Herman Melville

#2. The missionary lifted his hands in a gesture of harmlessness that went back to the African plains of the Pleistocene. I have no weapon; I seek no fight. I'm

James S.A. Corey

#3. I was a Methodist when I was anything. What flavor are you selling? The missionary lifted his hands in a gesture of harmlessness that went back to the African plains of the Pleistocene. I have no weapon; I seek no fight.

James S.A. Corey

#4. They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Yes: if only a hundredth of the efforts spent in curing diseases were spent in curing debauchery, disease would long ago have ceased to exist, whereas now all efforts are employed, not in extirpating debauchery, but in favoring it, by assuring the harmlessness of the consequences.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Gautama Buddha

#7. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#8. The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Alex Winter

#9. The Enlightenment sought to rid the world of myths, but the nation could not justify itself without them.

George Friedman

#10. He's harmless, poor thing. That's what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn't mean I have to like them.

Franny Billingsley

#11. I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

Teller

#12. The divers were the bravest of us ... they gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution, iran's enemies stood by Saddam for the whole eight years of the Sacred Defence.

Mohsen Rezaee

#13. She is the mystery that is wrapped tightly around the man I am trying so desperately to unravel.

Ella Frank

#14. He was always in a hurry to get where he was not.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Oscar Wilde

#16. There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life

Boris Pasternak

#17. A burnt child loves the fire.

Oscar Wilde

#18. There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.

Robert Farrar Capon

#19. You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Tamora Pierce

#20. I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

Nancy Pelosi

#21. When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

John Slattery

#22. Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

Cyprian

#23. The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

Alistair Brownlee

#25. There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26. An eight-hour movie is definitely not a two-hour movie. An eight-hour movie is really like five independent films, if you think about it, because each is usually an hour and a half. In some ways, it is like making a movie. It's just a lot more information.

Cary Fukunaga