Innocence Quotes · Page 20

“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.”

— Neal Shusterman

There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.

— Amanda Knox

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

— Madame de Stael

“This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“ There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.”

— Michael Connelly

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

— John Adams

“Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon”

— john j geddes

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

— Charles A. Reich

Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t…

— A.S.A. Harrison

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and…

— Bryant H. McGill

“What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control…

— Graham Greene

“That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.”

— Dave Matthes

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything…

— Anonymous

“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We tracked 'Domestic Sweater' live as a full band. It had been a while since we had even performed so in doing…

— Sasha Spielberg

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty…

— Dylan Thomas

The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence…

— George W. Bush

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike…

— Edward Albee

While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally…

— George Washington

“That was when I saw it: behind the beauty and fake innocence was something else, something cold and calculating. Even when she…

— Jamie McGuire

“But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove…

— J.D. Salinger

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,…

— Anonymous

“You sentimentalise them because they're little," she said. "But the format doesn't matter. I have gradually learned that everyone, absolutely everyone of…

— Tove Jansson

“Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

— Frederick Lenz

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

— Marianne Williamson

“Innocence is never lost when you feel it pounding in your heart.”

— Goo Goo Dolls

I am fighting because of my innocence. I am fighting because I am a victim. I am not a doper.

— Justin Gatlin

“To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom.”

— Charbel Tadros

“You can never hurt me, And you will never cause me pain Cause you're made of fire, And I'm the heavy rain.”

— Ghaith Salloum

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”

— Criss Jami

Why turn to drugs if there's something out there waiting to be done in the moment by pure innocence

— Courtney Hayward

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

— Stephen Breyer

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

— Clint Eastwood

“Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.”

— Charlie Chan

Going on reality TV is a shrewd business move now: I miss the innocence of how it used to be.

— Angela Scanlon

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

— Peter Slipper

“Things that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such.”

— Zoë Heller

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good…

— Harper Lee