Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
“Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“ There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between. — Amanda Knox 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
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
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“She could sense the fear and anxiety of babies and younger children upon meeting her for the first time; their wide eyed… — Coco Mingolelli Copy Share Image
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
