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

how benign is solitude. — Robin S. Sharma

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them? — Stephen Colbert

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

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

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

Maybe I would get a ferret. A cat just felt too benign. My kind of crazy deserved an ambiguously cute rodent with a penchant for biting. — L. H. Cosway

The boasts of men about their conquests would seem hollow since it's the vulnerability of women that fetches them their favors.. — BS Murthy

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

BOTOLPHS (pl.n) Huge benign tumours which archdeacons and old chemistry teachers affect to wear on the sides of their noses. — Douglas Adams

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

Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists. — Paul Simon

Whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum. — Robert M. Pirsig

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! — Quentin Crisp

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

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. — Joseph P. Bradley

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

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. — Robert Higgs

Pity is a benign form of abuse. — Michael J. Fox

If you ignored the benign ghost that haunted the place and the witch who lived inside, it was practically the picture of normalcy. — Deborah Blake

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects. — Cassandra Clare

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason. — Samuel Pisar

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

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

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico

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. — Diane Keaton

I had to be careful. Nothing from the Otherworld was benign, especially something in packaging this attractive. — Mary Lindsey

I began to long for the benign indifference of Robert Redford flossing his molars. — Michael J. Fox

A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body.
From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence. — Frederick W. Hackwood

Service, which is nothing other than a modern echo of noblesse oblige, and generally undertaken in the same spirit of benign condescension. — William Deresiewicz

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

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses. — Jojo Moyes

But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves. — Sangu Mandanna

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

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt

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

I missed the customers, their company, and the easy chatter that swelled and dipped gently like a benign sea around me. — Jojo Moyes

The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'. — Woody Allen

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

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

Roopa reached that stage in love when a woman feels obliged to keep her love alive so as to sustain her belief in her ability to love and be loved. — BS Murthy

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

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

To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners — Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

Unused creativity is not benign. — Brene Brown

Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon. — Liane Moriarty

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. — Michael McKean

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

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

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. — Carl Sagan

Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy. — Steven Pinker

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves. — Marilyn Ferguson

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

Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex. — Christopher Bram

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

Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. We all know this. — M O Walsh

Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly positive press. — Andy Coulson

Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master. — Leslie Ludy

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

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people.
By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood. — Toba Beta

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. — Albert Camus

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon. — Ken Baumann

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

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

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine. — Mike DeWine

At least Clarissa knows I'm benign. But that is not an adjective one wants to throw around about one's spouse: This is my husband. He's benign. — Steve Martin

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

What difference does a New Year make for me but for the change of the calendar?' said Roopa gravely. — BS Murthy

Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign. — B.V. Lawson

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul. — Kyle MacLachlan

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

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

[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. — George Berkeley

Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign? — Leslie Parry

I think,' said Raja Rao, 'unrestrained urge is promiscuity while passion refined is romanticism. — BS Murthy

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