“And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little.… — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when your parents bring up the topic of sex and you just sit there all innocent like, 'Wait, whats… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge. — Bojan Krkic Copy Share Image
In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked." "We shall think you what you… — Charlotte Brontë 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
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence --… — Hans Silvester Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Why did you stop?” Her innocence humbled him, and despite the danger, he pulled her to him, resting her head against his… — Amber Lynn Perry Copy Share Image
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
“I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“Happiness, that most childish of states, is infectious. Furthermore, in its innocence, it will not be hidden, even when tempered with sorrow” — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
“In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think… — Robert Zaretsky Copy Share Image
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that… — Lise Hand Copy Share Image
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence,… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Don't care what people say Just follow your own way Don't give up and use the chance To return to innocence. That's… — Enigma Copy Share Image
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image