Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes--clearly her father's--were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her,… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think I grew up that night. It might have been Patrick that lost his virginity, but it was me that lost… — T.A. Webb Copy Share Image
No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“For once in her life, the thought of being on the back of a magnificent horse did not command Rycca's attention. She… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. Finding no language in which… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“She could sense the fear and anxiety of babies and younger children upon meeting her for the first time; their wide eyed… — Coco Mingolelli Copy Share Image
A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When… — Chuck Schuldiner Copy Share Image
“A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on such… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
