#harmless

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

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

#fearless #harmlessness #inspirational #motivational #death

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

There is no such thing as a harmless truth. ↗

— Gregory Nunn

#such #thing #truth

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. ↗

— John Donne

#great #great thing #harmless #masterpiece #nature

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

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. ↗

— Liz Smith

#best #flirt #growing #harmless #like

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

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

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless