Famous Quotes & Sayings

The one, who is benevolent and liberal enjoys peace, happiness and prosperity.

Tom Baker

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine

Alan Johnson

We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail,

Barry Humphries

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

Adrian McKinty

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Val McDermid

Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?

Matt Mullenweg

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.

James was a role model for all of us. He was a fair man, a benevolent man and had a profound love for people,

The 48-hour rule and other practices that have been followed by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association reinforces and helped to create the code of silence.

Srikumar Rao

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.

Brown will hope that his performance (on Wednesday) will help to change the public's perception of him from stern chancellor to benevolent potential future prime minister.

Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.

Eric Hoffer

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep

Not only has it contributed from a financial standpoint but from a benevolent standpoint as well,

Howie is like the benevolent character advising and rooting for the contestants.

I just think it's destiny. God looks out for good people. Jerome is a good citizen, and he's a benevolent person in the community. It's destiny for him to start in Detroit and end in Detroit.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.