We are a nation with a powerful investment in the idea of our own fundamental innocence. Our can-do optimism and ingenuity are… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“You know what the trouble is with New York?” she asked me. “No,” I said. “Nobody here,” she said, “believes that there… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality...… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers… — George Will Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to live once again with the innocence of a child, to not have to face adult decisions and… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“Jeremy will take her like the Angel itself, in his joyless weasel-worded come-along, and Roger will be forgotten, an amusing maniac, but… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Youth is a gift that goes largely unappreciated by its proprietor. Like a single raindrop falling on hot pavement it evaporates before… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
All the roles that I have acted in were all special in a different way. But the role of Ri Jeong-hyeok had… — Hyun Bin Copy Share Image
“You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel." I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Regarding the children in Israel who made the first known world change in history using the Bible Code, they left a statement… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of secrets is a very enticing ship, a very tempting voyage, and one thinks that the highest attainment in life… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god,… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a… — John Filo Copy Share Image
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was weeping for an altogether different reason. When… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When… — Nicole Miller Copy Share Image
There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now — a real child. Oh! you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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