Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.” — Diane Medved Copy Share Image
“I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“He does not know what caused him to break off from Weston and walk out. Perhaps it was when the boy said… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres,… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a childs heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call… — Sung Yim Copy Share Image
The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
“and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
See the world with the innocence of children. Approach the world with the daring of children. Love the world with the readiness… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“It's a razor's edge kind of innocence, which relies on a willingness to be duped for the sake of transcending ordinary experience,… — Maud Casey Copy Share Image
Biopics no longer have to be about national leaders and well known achievers. Look at 'Sarbjit.' It is about an ordinary Punjabi… — Satish Kaushik Copy Share Image
Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will… — William Pepper Copy Share Image
O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks… — Elijah Fenton Copy Share Image
Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But they have life and faith and hope and love and they choose those things. Their innocence is addicting, their hope is… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
I dont remember you but its hard to forget such a lovely face any how its wrong to jump out of someones'… — Ganda Wickliffe Copy Share Image
The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one can believe in Woody Allen's innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Maybe thats why they hate us.For reminding them that innocence is just an illusion, we're dark and maggoty all the way down… — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
