“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“They are funny little representatives of simplicity, of awareness. No one is more aware of themselves as these children are. They have… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged… — Al Aronowitz Copy Share Image
“These flowers are starwort," she said. "Starwort means 'welcome.' By giving you a bouquet of starwort, I'm welcoming you to my home,… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“We see that in the organic world, to the same degree that reflection gets darker and weaker, grace grows ever more radiant… — Heinrich von Kleist Copy Share Image
I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
In a time when my entire family had already tapped into their retirement savings and taken out second mortgages, we were grateful… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
She got eyes of innocence, the face of an angel, the personality of a dreamer and the smile that hides more pain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Derz so much of love and innocence inside you,itz juz so obvious tht even a blind man can see to it so… — Pranit Aloney Copy Share Image
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
