There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham 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
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities.… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“There's something about seeing people when they have just wake up--before they have a chance to put on the face they show… — Robin Brande Copy Share Image
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on… — Anonymous 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
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
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. — Ricardo Lagos Copy Share Image
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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