Innocence Quotes - Page 22

• We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Winning, People

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• I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

  Coolio

  Nice, Guy, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Children, Innocent, Obligation

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• It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fighting, People, Helping

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• They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Fun, Ems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

  Karl Shapiro

  Innocent, Dies, Unspoken

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

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• The artificial is always innocent.

  Frank O'Hara

  Innocent, Artificial

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.23, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Suffering, Way, Innocent

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

  Douglas Sirk

  Character, Innocent

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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• The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

  Allen Tate

  Heart, Panthers, Innocent

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Past, Japan

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• I am not guilty, I am innocent.

  Saddam Hussein

  Guilty, Innocent, Not Guilty

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• Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

  Anthony Anderson

  Innocent, Victim, Innocent Victims

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

  Ben Harper

  Sky, Criminals, Today

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• 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

  World, Care, Innocent

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• 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.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Sight, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Important, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Innocent Man, Words Of Wisdom

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122

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• Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Guilt, Lucky, Protection

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• 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

  Michael Drayton

  Eye, Closing Up, Bed

  'Idea' (1619) sonnet 61

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• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  Richard Jewell

  Men, Innocent Man, Names

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• I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold

  Chuck Schuldiner

  Memories, Eye, Needs

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

  W. H. Auden

  Firsts, Remember, Moments

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.28, Princeton University Press

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• The thing I like most about dogs is their absolute belief in their own innocence, even when they've been caught redhanded. No matter what they've been doing, every bad dog bears the same look when scolded: "What?"

  Craig Wilson

  Dog, Looks, Matter

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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