Innocent Quotes

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I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged… — Anne Rice
Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. — Jean de la Bruyere
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most… — Algernon Sidney
Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight,… — Pythagoras
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never… — Robert Evans
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to… — Roberto Bolano
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people… — Lynne Truss
God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments. — Katherine Howe
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;… — Virginia Woolf
I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent. — Dick Cheney
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote… — Margaret Atwood
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect… — William Faulkner
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison. — Bryan Stevenson
It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the… — Syncletica of Alexandria
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold… — Shirley Temple
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and… — Washington Gladden
There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted… — Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children, and you see how fragile and innocent and… — Lisa Marie Presley
Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child. — Jet Black
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and… — Izaak Walton
She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed… — Dean Koontz
The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely… — Lloyd deMause

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