Quotes of: Innocent-people Keyword

Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.

William Maxwell

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

John O. Brennan

People make themselves unhappy by desiring and praising only one thing, by becoming too one-sided in trying to find contentment. If we were just in harmony with ourselves we would enjoy the things of this world much more. But when we have an inordina...

Indian Summer

I was more at home in my father's world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed un...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most ...

Looking for Alaska

When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.' 'So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into t...

A Prisoner of Birth

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pur...

Philip Pullman

...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to eit...

Tim Wise

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

The Complete Essays

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Confessions

Innocent droplets of rain Make almost all events Quite natural. (from "A Rainy Day")

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Was your mom a gardener?' I asked innocently. 'What?' Ren’s mouth hung open slightly. 'Because a face like yours belongs planted on the ground.

Daimon

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

The Edible Woman

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

Fludd

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

The God Delusion

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Geek Love

I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks

Hologram LP: A Book of Glosas

You can never hurt me, And you will never cause me pain Cause you're made of fire, And I'm the heavy rain.

Burning Innocence

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

The Barbarian Nurseries