By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten,… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
“And there persisted in her a sense of Michael’s dangerous innocence, his naivete, which seemed to her to be connected to his… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister. “Pride?” Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry.… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You sentimentalise them because they're little," she said. "But the format doesn't matter. I have gradually learned that everyone, absolutely everyone of… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“That was when I saw it: behind the beauty and fake innocence was something else, something cold and calculating. Even when she… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit’s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women? Or, that a gentle, innocent female… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Consider," she said, "what it is, a unicorn. It is the incarnation of purity, an avatar of innocence. And here is the… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
“What do you really want? Did you know that every single one of your desires is an expression of your soul's longing… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“When do they turn the streetlights on? Does each streetlight have a separate switch? Where did all the choo-choo trains go? Why… — Matthew Dicks Copy Share Image
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
~ < 3 Bury all your secrets in my skin Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins The air… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost… — George Will Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
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