While I try to retain the slightly odd perspective and some of the innocence, it's really liberating to be able to talk/rant… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence.… — Frederick Lenz 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
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me.… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“You cannot make yourself have a flashback, nor will you have one unless you are emotionally ready to remember something. Once remembered,… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wake up every day trying to hold on to my innocence. That is not a thing that has to do with… — Kiersey Clemons Copy Share Image
“I look at the world and through these innocent eyes, all I see is hatred and anger. Corrupting everything, ruining everything, but… — Kitauna Roberts Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Lift up your eyes from your books, from your past, from your hurts and look upon all people with love, because when… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“A woman will always remain as princess as long as she keeps her childhood innocence and goodwill; a man will always remain… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence &… — Jay Sheets 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
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be… — Marianne Williamson 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
I think the way is very beautiful but very sad, because it is full of innocence in the beginning and then goes… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
Will I ever get back to the innocence that I once knew before that summer turned into fall? But when I close… — Alla Copy Share Image
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one… — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
In the land of Gods and Monsters I was an Angel Living in the garden of evil Screwed up, scared, doing anything… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
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