I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
While I try to retain the slightly odd perspective and some of the innocence, it's really liberating to be able to talk/rant… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the way is very beautiful but very sad, because it is full of innocence in the beginning and then goes… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice -… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the… — Ronald A. Heifetz Copy Share Image
“[THE DAILY BREATH] Underneath the body of pain, is your heart of love. Underneath the clothing of hurt, is your naked forgiveness.… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
“We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“A woman will always remain as princess as long as she keeps her childhood innocence and goodwill; a man will always remain… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence &… — Jay Sheets Copy Share Image
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
“Happiness, that most childish of states, is infectious. Furthermore, in its innocence, it will not be hidden, even when tempered with sorrow” — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think… — Robert Zaretsky Copy Share Image
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that… — Lise Hand Copy Share Image
“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
“I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked." "We shall think you what you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image