A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. — Phyllis Bottome 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
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else. — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world,… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost. — James Joyce 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
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's a beauty in that innocence that comes from not knowing. It allowed me to take a lot of risks and I… — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the… — Michael Jackson 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
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman 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
“The morning Mom tells me my skirt is too short, I find the lawn full of dead fledglings.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
