Innocence Quotes · Page 23

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

— Steve Toltz

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

— Albert Camus

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

— Robert Shapiro

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

— Honore de Balzac

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

— Karl Shapiro

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

— Voltaire

Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

— Arthur Koestler

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.

— Shweta Menon

“Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.”

— P.D. James

“World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom”

— Jay Woodman

Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one,…

— Tori Amos

She's got eyes of innocence, a face of an angel, a personality of a dream, and a smile that hides more pain…

— Emalie Newhall

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence…

— Conor Lamb

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

— Graham Greene

When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around…

— Dani Shapiro

And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed,…

— Jane Yolen

“Vengeance took no account of innocence or right. It was the chain that bound horrific events together, that decreed that one awful…

— Robin Hobb

So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and…

— Todd Solondz

I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and…

— David LaChapelle

“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,…

— Antonia Michaelis

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with…

— Stephen Jay Gould

And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and…

— Anonymous

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

— David Bentley Hart

Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

— A. J. McLean

“Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.”

— Christopher Fry

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

— Bruce Springsteen

Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you.

— Aldous Huxley

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

— Anais Nin

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

— Pierce Brosnan

“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion…

— Marlena De Blasi

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The…

— Margaret Atwood

“The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change,…

— Ross Thomas

I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive…

— Ward Churchill

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

— George W. Bush

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on…

— Anonymous

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence…

— Anonymous

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective…

— Ang Lee

“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking…

— Evelyn Waugh