#benign

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

— Mary MacLane

#beautiful #benign #beyond #brilliant #fame

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#basically #benign #change #dictatorships #even

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#aware #bad #bad press #became #benign

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#hostile #indifferent #merely #neither #nor

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. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#balance #benign #between #caused #consumers

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#benign #built #challenge #company #economic

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#best #call #cheap #days #fad

Pity is a benign form of abuse. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#benign #form #pity

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#damaging #gradual #more #outcomes #plausible