#harmless

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#almost #archaic #because #harmless #incendiary

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

#animal #compared #distortion #facts #harmless

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

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

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

#does #given #god #got #harmless

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#emotion #harmless #meaning #meaning of #only

You look as scary as a buttered muffin. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#harmlessness #humor #tortall #humor

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#after #convinced #give #give me #got

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless. ↗

— Alexander Henry

#ancient #before #confront #ever #fast

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

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least