Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

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

I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.

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.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

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.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

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

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

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

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

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

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

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

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

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.

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.

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

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.

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.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

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

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

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.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

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.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

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

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.

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.

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