The innocence of a child is an astounding quality which if not withered away as they grow can spread love and happiness everywhere
We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We have to realize that even the most noble actions or most obviously correct course can have its dark side that we cannot control or reason o...
[Barbara is upstairs, watching Sheba and Richard having a blazing row about her affair with Steven Connolly] Barbara Covett: [voiceover] By the time I took my seat in the Gods, the opera was well into its final act. Richard Hart: You're his teacher! ...
We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Place a weapon in the hands of Greed, hatred, especially of ignorance You've created innocent deaths That wasn't neccasary
Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254
Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn’t care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.
If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.
...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...
It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…
The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful.
You’re beautiful when you do that.” She dropped her gaze to his. “What’s that?” “Smile.
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.
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
The past is always more innocent, because it exists peacefully in the unreachable and unchangeable parts of the imagination.
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
