Innocence Quotes - Page 37

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

  Adrian Mitchell

  Song, Party, Innocence And Experience

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• According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

  Rosemary Wells

  Blessed, Writing, Keys

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• 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.... !!!

  Abhijeet Sawant

  Honesty, Lying, Quests

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

  Pedro

  Girl, Eight, Age

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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

  Sylvia Kristel

  Serenity, Trying, Elegance

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• 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.

  Mike Figgis

  Moving, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  Bianca Jagger

  Innocent Person, People, Killing

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

  Charles A. Reich

  Optimism, Depth, Fundamentals

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

  David Bentley Hart

  Recovery, Ends

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• A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.

  Ami McKay

  War, Writing, Character

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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

  Forget, Clean, States

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• The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iraq, People, Soldier

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• If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.

  Michael Franti

  Children, Wall, War

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• 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.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Ribs, Taste

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• 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.

  Sally Kirkland

  Writing, Ideas, Insecurity

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• Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

  John Dryden

  Children, Men, Wit

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.364, Pearson Education

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

  John Jakes

  Essence, Heaven, Losing

  John Jakes (2013). “The North and South Trilogy: North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell”, p.3369, Open Road Media

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• Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

  Ilana Mercer

  Military, Mistake, Weakness

  "Liar, Liar, Abaya on Fire". www.wnd.com. April 17, 2002.

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• One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured as soon as spilt One part of love is sentiment One part of love is lust One part is the presentiment Of our return to dust

  Clive Barker

  Love, Dust, Lust

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Aug 16, 2013

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• Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of egolessness, the world won't disappear, as you may think it will. The world will continue, but a change takes place within you. Something is uncovered. You start seeing everything with the wonder and innocence of a child.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Letting Go, Children, Thinking

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 8”, p.125, M A Center

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

  Jack Vance

  Apology, Criminals, Firsts

  Jack Vance (1950). “The Dying Earth”, p.199, Spatterlight Press

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• If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

  Adolph Gottlieb

  Tradition, Form, Ifs

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 51, 1990.

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• 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

  Hozier

  Kings, Making Love, Soil

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• For Thomas Traherne (c. 1636-1674), one of the sanest men who ever lived, to see the world with the eyes of innocence, and so to see it pervaded by a numinous glory, is to see things as they truly are, and to recognize creation as the mirror of God's infinite beauty.

  David Bentley

  Eye, Men, Infinite Beauty

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