Innocence famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
-- Adolph Gottlieb -
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
-- Adyashanti -
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.
-- Alan Keyes -
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
-- Albert Camus -
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.
-- Alberto Manguel -
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
-- Alex Winter -
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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 becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
-- Ana Castillo -
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
-- Anais Nin -
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
-- Anatole France -
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
-- Anil Kapoor -
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
-- Anita Brookner -
The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.
-- Ann Coulter -
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
-- Anne Lamott -
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
-- Annie Dillard -
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
-- Antonin Scalia -
Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
-- Ayn Rand -
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.
-- Bai Ling -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
-- Barney Frank -
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
-- Bette Davis -
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.
-- Bob Taft -
I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
-- Brit Marling -
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.
-- Brooke Shields -
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
-- Charles Peguy -
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.
-- Christopher Smart -
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
-- Clint Eastwood -
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
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.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
-- Daryl Hannah -
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
-- David Bentley Hart -
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.
-- Deepak Chopra -
In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.
-- Diane Wakoski -
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.
-- Dick Morris -
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
-- DMX -
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
-- Dodie Smith -
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.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
-- Douglas Sirk -
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
-- Eartha Kitt -
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
-- Edmund Waller -
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.
-- Edward Graham Paley -
... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
-- Federico Fellini -
Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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.
-- Frederick H. Evans -
There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.
-- Gaston Leroux -
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.
-- George Carlin -
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
-- George W. Bush -
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?
-- Georges Bataille -
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
-- Helene Cixous -
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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.
-- Hermann Hesse -
I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.
-- Hillary Scott -
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.
-- Immanuel Kant -
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
-- Irving Howe -
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
-- Izaak Walton -
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
-- Jack Abbott -
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
-- Jack Lynch -
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
-- Jackie Jackson -
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
-- Jared Leto -
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.
-- Jean Anouilh -
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.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
-- Jean Racine -
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
-- Jean Racine -
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
-- Jean Racine -
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
-- Jewel -
After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
-- Jhonen Vasquez -
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
-- Joan Didion -
all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.
-- Joanne Greenberg -
But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
-- Joanne Harris -
There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.
-- Jocelyn Murray -
Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.
-- John Barth -
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.
-- John Dryden -
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
-- John Grisham -
Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell
-- John Jakes
