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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
If you want to know who you are, look into the true mirror. The flower will reflect your beauty. The sky will… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“In Paris, Julien’s position with regard to Madame de Renal would very soon have been simplified; but in Paris love is the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder,… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
“Obedient to no man, dependent only on weather and season, without a goal before them or a roof above them, owning nothing,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One by one, drops fell from my eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one… — Lisi Harrison 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
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Most of the songs were based round the theme of lost innocence and as that's precisely what we were experiencing at the… — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
There's a beauty in that innocence that comes from not knowing. It allowed me to take a lot of risks and I… — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
