Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
To start with, you should have an attitude of gratitude. Without an attitude of gratitude, neither prosperity nor pleasure, joy nor happiness… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth,… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals and artists concerned with faith tend to underestimate the radical, inviolable innocence it requires. We read and read, write long, elaborate… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“WHY SO SWEET? Tongues surrounded by the farm of sugarcane, Hold on, their prickling stuff stings like a snake. Showers of appreciation… — Rashmita Copy Share Image
For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Not because you have a pretty face, you will be loved. Not because you have talents, you will be admired. Not because… — Myself Copy Share Image
And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“...and there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes,… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then… — Noah S. Sweat Copy Share Image
I didn’t know how much I could love until you were gone. Until your laughter no longer filled my home, your wicked… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Love wasn't to be measured, much less restricted, by methodology. Love wasn't a method. Love was a faculty of the highest order,… — Rob Inclan Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know you have the capability to understand right from wrong because you hate people who harm children. Well, why not despise… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“my arms on the cinder track. Kids came running our way, thirty girls in bright shorts, an improbable bobbing mass. The eager… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
When is the age or even the moment when you go from being kids to being something else? People say that we're… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“That long-gone sense of innocence and trust now reminded her of the feeling she now had when about to put on a… — Juliet Nicolson Copy Share Image
