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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant. -- LL Cool J
Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences. -- Diana Gabaldon
Oh, I'm quite harmless in real life. -- Mika
The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless. -- Cheech Marin
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. -- John Donne
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. -- Milton Friedman
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. -- Liz Smith
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. -- Eric Hoffer
People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.' -- Dylan Moran
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. -- Konrad Lorenz
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. -- Sarah Silverman
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless. -- Christopher Walken
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. -- Molly Ivins
I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless. -- Peter Hollingworth
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. -- Edward Thorndike
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial. -- Megan Fox
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. -- Jaron Lanier
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun. -- Richard Dawkins
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. -- Richard Dawkins
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. -- Margaret Halsey
I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know. -- Eric Clapton
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. -- Umberto Eco
Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way. -- Neill Blomkamp
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else. -- Michael Caine
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't. -- Amy Waldman
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways. -- Richard Rohr
I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me? -- Kat Graham
Earth: mostly harmless -- Douglas Adams
A harmless necessary cat. -- William Shakespeare
Music should never be harmless. -- Robbie Robertson
As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless. -- Zedd
Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor. -- Sappho
I'm a lovable, harmless, lovable, little fuzzball. -- Rush Limbaugh
I'm a lovable, harmless, lovable, little fuzzball. -- Rush Limbaugh
A thought is harmless unless we believe it. -- Byron Katie
A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. -- Samuel Johnson
It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem. -- Jonathan Tropper
I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they? -- Noel Gallagher
The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean. -- Josh Groban
If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself! -- Philip K. Dick
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. -- Arthur Honegger
America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend. -- Bernard Lewis
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining -- Julian Burnside
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born. -- Lauren Oliver
Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything. -- Richard Rohr
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. -- T. S. Eliot
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. -- G. H. Hardy
I don't consider myself an offensive guy. I am just a harmless lovable little fuzzball. -- Rush Limbaugh
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. -- Louise Penny
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe. -- Richelle Mead
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. -- John Webster
It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. -- Kingsley Amis
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless -- Haruki Murakami
That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. -- Beth Hoffman
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself. -- Gautama Buddha
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch. -- Michael Caine
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. -- William Golding
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler -- Albert Einstein
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. -- Josh Billings
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it. -- Cullen Hightower
I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless 'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless -- Kanye West
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. -- John Dryden
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. -- Erich Fromm
I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar -- James St. James
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them. -- Judith Martin
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness -- Charles Dickens
Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it -- Bill Bailey
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. -- Katherine Paterson
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. -- Maria Edgeworth
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness. -- Jim Clemmer
A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies. -- John B. Tabb
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled. -- Jeff Bingaman
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. -- Cassandra Clare
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. -- Charles Dickens
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. -- Samuel Johnson
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. -- Samuel Johnson
There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. -- Yann Martel
Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. -- Gerry Rafferty
I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines -- Joanne Harris
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden. -- Mac Barnett
Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description. -- Dana Gould
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man." -- Konrad Lorenz
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
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man -- Konrad Lorenz
The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. -- Israel M. Kirzner
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I don't feel like there's any need to hide the fact that I smoke pot. It's a harmless herbal substance that increases sensory appreciation. -- Ezra Miller
We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will become harmless. -- Robert O. Young
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
Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are! -- Mariam Masood
You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless. -- Josh Lanyon
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. -- Samuel Johnson
Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. -- Gautama Buddha
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. -- Mark Twain
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend. -- Henry Wotton
The biggest problem about looking at a problem is looking at it. When we finally find or face it, it becomes harmless and easy to solve. -- Robert Scheid
September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough. -- Geoffrey Hill
Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador. -- Sue Townsend
I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure.' It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador. -- Sue Townsend
Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies. -- Tory Burch
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid. -- George Santayana
The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents. -- Lin Yutang
Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death. -- Tecumseh
98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against. -- David Duchovny
We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects... -- Mitsuye Yamada
A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring. -- Mark Twain
But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble. -- Eric Ludy

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