Quotes about Innocence

Innocence is always unsuspicious. Votes: 6

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. Votes: 6

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Votes: 6

Innocence is ashamed of nothing. Votes: 4

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. Votes: 4

All things truly wicked start from innocence. Votes: 4

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence. Votes: 4

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt. Votes: 4

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. Votes: 4

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world. Votes: 4

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. Votes: 4

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. Votes: 4

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies. Votes: 4

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. Votes: 4

Innocence is its own defense. Votes: 3

Innocence has nothing to dread. Votes: 3

Innocence crafts its own demise. Votes: 3

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. Votes: 3

Innocence is the source of love. Votes: 3

Innocence has a friend in heaven. Votes: 3

Innocence is a kind of insanity Votes: 3

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does. Votes: 3

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. Votes: 3

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance... Votes: 3

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. Votes: 3

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning. Votes: 3

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality. Votes: 3

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind. Votes: 3

Innocence could be lost more than once after all. Votes: 3

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt Votes: 3

Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others. Votes: 3

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed Votes: 3

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth. Votes: 3

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. Votes: 3

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Votes: 3

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear. Votes: 3

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.] Votes: 3

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path. Votes: 3

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost. Votes: 3

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! Votes: 3

O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven. Votes: 3

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. Votes: 3

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime. Votes: 3

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. Votes: 3

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. Votes: 3

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. Votes: 3

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. Votes: 3

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. Votes: 3

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. Votes: 3

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. Votes: 3

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. Votes: 3

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third. Votes: 3

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything. Votes: 3

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view. Votes: 3

Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence Votes: 3

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography. Votes: 3

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death! Votes: 3

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags. Votes: 3

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made. Votes: 3

But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with unperceived decay, And glides in modest Innocence away Votes: 3

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe. Votes: 3

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker. Votes: 3

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. Votes: 2

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. Votes: 2

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. Votes: 2

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. Votes: 2

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. Votes: 2

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. Votes: 2

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. Votes: 2

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. Votes: 2

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. Votes: 2

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. Votes: 2

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others. Votes: 2

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Votes: 2

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. Votes: 2

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. Votes: 2

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. Votes: 2

Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. Votes: 2

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. Votes: 2

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. Votes: 2

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. Votes: 2

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. Votes: 2

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad. Votes: 2

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. Votes: 2

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Votes: 2

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Votes: 2

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. Votes: 2

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. Votes: 2

I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important. Votes: 2

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. Votes: 2

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence. Votes: 2

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind. Votes: 2

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. Votes: 2

Ignorance is not innocence. Votes: 0

I never had innocence. Votes: 0

Wisdom comes only with innocence. Votes: 0

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant! Votes: 0

The most effective coquetry is innocence. Votes: 0

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Votes: 0

Mystery and innocence are not akin. Votes: 0

My innocence is a dying flower Votes: 0

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten. Votes: 0

credulity is the sister of innocence ... Votes: 0

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Votes: 0

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge. Votes: 0

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness. Votes: 0

innocence is the hardest thing to prove. Votes: 0

The first casualty of war is innocence. Votes: 0

All happiness is a form of innocence. Votes: 0

I think there's an innocence to me. Votes: 0

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. Votes: 0

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience Votes: 0

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence. Votes: 0

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. Votes: 0

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold. Votes: 0

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer. Votes: 0

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. Votes: 0

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. Votes: 0

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. Votes: 0

The world mistakes Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence . Votes: 0

Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence. Votes: 0

...guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven. Votes: 0

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience. Votes: 0

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love. Votes: 0

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. Votes: 0

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot! Votes: 0

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. Votes: 0

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin Votes: 0

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence. Votes: 0

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough. Votes: 0

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty. Votes: 0

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield. Votes: 0

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time. Votes: 0

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't." Votes: 0

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell Votes: 0

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. Votes: 0

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. Votes: 0

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. Votes: 0

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself. Votes: 0

There could never be innocence in a world without justice. Votes: 0

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. Votes: 0

Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence Votes: 0

One learns one's mystery at the price of one's innocence. Votes: 0

Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence. Votes: 0

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free. Votes: 0

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.... Votes: 0

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. Votes: 0

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children. Votes: 0

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. Votes: 0

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. Votes: 0

Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you. Votes: 0

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. Votes: 0

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized? Votes: 0

The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence. Votes: 0

The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence. Votes: 0

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. Votes: 0

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware. Votes: 0

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. Votes: 0

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality. Votes: 0

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! Votes: 0

Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination. Votes: 0

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Votes: 0

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. Votes: 0

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. Votes: 0

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence. Votes: 0

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence. Votes: 0

My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love. Votes: 0

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born? Votes: 0

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching. Votes: 0

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail. Votes: 0

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence. Votes: 0

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. Votes: 0

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience. Votes: 0

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that. Votes: 0

Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. Votes: 0

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. Votes: 0

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful. Votes: 0

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free. Votes: 0

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory Votes: 0

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. Votes: 0

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement. Votes: 0

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world... Votes: 0

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. Votes: 0

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil. Votes: 0

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence. Votes: 0

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. Votes: 0

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else. Votes: 0

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! Votes: 0

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place. Votes: 0

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon. Votes: 0

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find Votes: 0

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause. Votes: 0

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame. Votes: 0

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. Votes: 0

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex. Votes: 0

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. Votes: 0

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. Votes: 0

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. Votes: 0

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience. Votes: 0

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim. Votes: 0

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence. Votes: 0

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun. Votes: 0

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion! Votes: 0

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. Votes: 0

The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be. Votes: 0

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. Votes: 0

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old. Votes: 0

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. Votes: 0

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. Votes: 0

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. Votes: 0

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. Votes: 0

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. Votes: 0

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being. Votes: 0

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people. Votes: 0

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. Votes: 0

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence. Votes: 0

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. Votes: 0

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. Votes: 0

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. Votes: 0

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. Votes: 0

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. Votes: 0

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. Votes: 0

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. Votes: 0

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes. Votes: 0

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence. Votes: 0

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. Votes: 0

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. Votes: 0

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause. Votes: 0

The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute Votes: 0

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up. Votes: 0

In innocence there is no strength against evil [...] but there is strength in it for good. Votes: 0

Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. Votes: 0

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. Votes: 0

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. Votes: 0

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. Votes: 0

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence. Votes: 0

If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows? Votes: 0

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. Votes: 0

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. Votes: 0

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. Votes: 0

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self. Votes: 0

Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle. Votes: 0

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. Votes: 0

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common. Votes: 0

WHEN THE CURTAIN OF INNOCENCE FALL DOWN FROM SOMEONES FACES, THEN THE REAL FACES SEEMS LIKE MUMMIES Votes: 0

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity. Votes: 0

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem. Votes: 0

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Votes: 0

Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face. Votes: 0

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. Votes: 0

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future. Votes: 0

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. Votes: 0

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. Votes: 0

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence. Votes: 0

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté. Votes: 0

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. Votes: 0

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license. Votes: 0

Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood. Votes: 0

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust Votes: 0

I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other. Votes: 0

As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face. Votes: 0

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence. Votes: 0

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. Votes: 0

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas. Votes: 0

Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance. Votes: 0

...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other. Votes: 0

But before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while. Votes: 0

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. Votes: 0

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven. Votes: 0

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. Votes: 0

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself. Votes: 0

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality. Votes: 0

The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind. Votes: 0

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love. Votes: 0

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. Votes: 0

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life. Votes: 0

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. Votes: 0

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast. Votes: 0

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. Votes: 0

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished Votes: 0

I met Big Pun when I was a young boy. I think that he really gravitated to my innocence. Votes: 0

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. Votes: 0

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. Votes: 0

We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now. Votes: 0

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal. Votes: 0

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. Votes: 0

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms. Votes: 0

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost. Votes: 0

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. Votes: 0

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. Votes: 0

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. Votes: 0

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes. Votes: 0

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. Votes: 0

Not every one of us sees the beauty of the stars and innocence of the moon by looking at sky. Votes: 0

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. Votes: 0

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. Votes: 0

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me. Votes: 0

A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation. Votes: 0

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence. Votes: 0

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence. Votes: 0

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. Votes: 0

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses. Votes: 0

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat... Votes: 0

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. Votes: 0

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good. Votes: 0

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. Votes: 0

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable. Votes: 0

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way. Votes: 0

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. Votes: 0

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom Votes: 0

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark. Votes: 0

My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen. Votes: 0

One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. Votes: 0

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer. Votes: 0

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. Votes: 0

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. Votes: 0

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you. Votes: 0

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press. Votes: 0

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? Votes: 0

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. Votes: 0

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence. Votes: 0

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. Votes: 0

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. Votes: 0

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight Votes: 0

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. Votes: 0

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. Votes: 0

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music. Votes: 0

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could. Votes: 0

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today. Votes: 0

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever. Votes: 0

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. Votes: 0

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. Votes: 0

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is. Votes: 0

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. Votes: 0

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence. Votes: 0

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. Votes: 0

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? Votes: 0

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed. Votes: 0

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side. Votes: 0

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. Votes: 0

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence. Votes: 0

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. Votes: 0

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence. Votes: 0

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. Votes: 0

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.from the prose poem INNOCENCE Votes: 0

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it. Votes: 0

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before. Votes: 0

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time. Votes: 0

Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. Votes: 0

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind. Votes: 0

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness. Votes: 0

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were Votes: 0

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us. Votes: 0

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. Votes: 0

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence. Votes: 0

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child. Votes: 0

The innocence of a child is an astounding quality which if not withered away as they grow can spread love and happiness everywhere Votes: 0

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . . Votes: 0

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. Votes: 0

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes. Votes: 0

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward. Votes: 0

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. Votes: 0

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. Votes: 0

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one. Votes: 0

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. Votes: 0

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? Votes: 0

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type. Votes: 0

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. Votes: 0

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall. Votes: 0

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. Votes: 0

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder. Votes: 0

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved? Votes: 0

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence. Votes: 0

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. Votes: 0

I think the seventies caught the last red rays of the dying sun of this innocence, but were already a little cold and drab. Votes: 0

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how. Votes: 0

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine. Votes: 0

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake. Votes: 0

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement. Votes: 0

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible. Votes: 0

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! Votes: 0

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same... Votes: 0

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian! Votes: 0

Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled. Votes: 0

I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost. Votes: 0

It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt. Votes: 0

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence. Votes: 0

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood. Votes: 0

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. Votes: 0

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. Votes: 0

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply]. Votes: 0

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence. Votes: 0

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust. Votes: 0

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation. Votes: 0

You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!! Votes: 0

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. Votes: 0

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else. Votes: 0

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience. Votes: 0

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days. Votes: 0

Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty. Votes: 0

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States. Votes: 0

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. Votes: 0

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. Votes: 0

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Votes: 0

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Votes: 0

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced. Votes: 0

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. Votes: 0

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. Votes: 0

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness. Votes: 0

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin. Votes: 0

Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can't claim innocence. Votes: 0

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. Votes: 0

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes. Votes: 0

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated? Votes: 0

Remember how we put stickers with your name on your pocessions that could be stolen.We didn't put a sticker on your innocence so don't lose it! Votes: 0

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness. Votes: 0

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult. Votes: 0

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible. Votes: 0

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich. Votes: 0

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration. Votes: 0

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries! Votes: 0

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. Votes: 0

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. Votes: 0

Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it. Votes: 0

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty! Votes: 0

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. Votes: 0

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing. Votes: 0

All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will Votes: 0

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it. Votes: 0

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again. Votes: 0

I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them. Votes: 0

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me. Votes: 0

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. Votes: 0

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones. Votes: 0

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again... Votes: 0

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence. Votes: 0

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. Votes: 0

I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything. Votes: 0

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. Votes: 0

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth. Votes: 0

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10) Votes: 0

The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen? Votes: 0

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence. Votes: 0

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival. Votes: 0

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. Votes: 0

All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy). Votes: 0

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted. Votes: 0

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.' Votes: 0

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness. Votes: 0

Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word". Votes: 0

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger. Votes: 0

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. Votes: 0

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold. Votes: 0

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill. Votes: 0

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her. Votes: 0

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door. Votes: 0

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 Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge. Votes: 0

In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence. Votes: 0

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom. Votes: 0

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it. Votes: 0

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason. Votes: 0

I'm not saying eating babies should be legal, but when they're so delicious, what's the harm in it? I don't know what tastes better, their innocence or their gooey rib butter. Votes: 0

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence. Votes: 0

Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason. Votes: 0

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. Votes: 0

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. Votes: 0

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Votes: 0

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself? Votes: 0

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder. Votes: 0

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Votes: 0

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence. Votes: 0

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally. Votes: 0

I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try to achieve a new innocence, a new naiveté. Votes: 0

They came together, they loved and they married. In innocence, and never dreaming how courageous they were, they started a new life together and a new generation of their own. -Maggie Now Votes: 0

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did. Votes: 0

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? Votes: 0

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings. Votes: 0

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair? Votes: 0

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night Votes: 0

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone. Votes: 0

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life. Votes: 0

Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence. Votes: 0

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this. Votes: 0

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it. Votes: 0

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life. Votes: 0

[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter ... Votes: 0

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence. Votes: 0

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre. Votes: 0

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed. Votes: 0

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love. Votes: 0

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos... Votes: 0

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness". Votes: 0

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence. Votes: 0

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles. Votes: 0

This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now And I'll hold on to it Don't you let it pass you by Votes: 0

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace. Votes: 0

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover Votes: 0

The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into. Votes: 0