... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“You were a beauty born of darkness. You wore it wrapped around as a cape. Designed to draw others to you, only… — Dark Night Beacon Copy Share Image
I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
“The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You are too kind.” Her voice dripped with sarcasm. “But what has marriage to offer me that I don’t already have?” There… — Monica McCarty Copy Share Image
“Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
As a citizen - or even a TV legal analyst - am I required to presume innocence, i.e., that the authorities arrest… — Dan Abrams Copy Share Image
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
“With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and… — Michelle Figley Copy Share Image
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic,… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
“Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she’d never asked for.” — Dinah Jefferies Copy Share Image
These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that,… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
“Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Cause we are broken, What must we do to restore. Our innocence, And all the promise we adored? Give us life again,… — Patience Copy Share Image
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And what’s wrong with innocence, anyway? Huh? I don’t get it. I grew up with no innocence. None. From day one, I… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Innocent like the first dreams A few words dropped on the paper; Contaminated they were by the surrounding air, Fame swarmed, naivety… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like… — Lucas Hedges Copy Share Image
I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Gavin is just a kid. He hasn't figured out yet how cruel life can be. How it can take everything from you,… — Derek Milman Copy Share Image
