I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow… Of his innocence all are confident. The… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“You have been so sheltered, Deeta - more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth… — D.D. Chant Copy Share Image
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Clent's expression had set up camp somewhere between amusement and pain. "Sometimes I forget that your small size is the result of… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our… — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
I have encountered in this world riff-raff and good people. I lose. I win. I defend myself when I am attacked. I… — Mata Hari Copy Share Image
So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
“We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Society considers the sex experiences of a man as attributes of his general development, while similar experiences in the life of a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Church didn't answer that. Instead he said, "The darkness is all around us. Very few people have the courage to light a… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Do you know my absolute favorite story about the author of The Age of Innocence ? It’s that she did all of… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest details of our… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALL When he is born, a baby's head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“She is the British warm that protects his stooping shoulders, and the wintering sparrow he holds inside his hands. She is his… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Hello," Life says, "Remember me? We started out together here When you were just a bundle Of innocent amazement. Remember how you… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“So much better for you to long for what you can never have, than to get it and have to face the… — Chameleon Author Copy Share Image
The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that?… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
Mama and dada, mommy and daddy, mother and father, or mom and dad, it seems as though the names for parents embark… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
