Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
The thing I like most about dogs is their absolute belief in their own innocence, even when they've been caught redhanded. No… — Craig Wilson Copy Share Image
Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“When we’re willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
“What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sage bows and the wise… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The true beauty of Christmas is revealed when we adore the season, not like some weary adult, but like a bubbly little… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can still hug some people who hurt me, most times it's not their fault. You should have seen how tough life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straight-forwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little.… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when your parents bring up the topic of sex and you just sit there all innocent like, 'Wait, whats… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge. — Bojan Krkic Copy Share Image
Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
![“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me…” quote by Nilo Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a26/nilo-cruz-36320_age_i-was-taught-to-lie-at-a-young-age-i-thi_3050601.jpg)
