Innocence Quotes

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

Andrew Sean Greer

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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Robert South

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The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

Shirley Temple

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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Mason Cooley

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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Juan Goytisolo

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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Dee Dee Myers

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The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Clint Eastwood

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No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

William Godwin

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While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

Peter Jackson

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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott

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I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Hillary Scott

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The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Frederic William Farrar

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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Albert Camus

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Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

Neel Mukherjee

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Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Danny Boyle

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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

Talulah Riley

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nadine Gordimer

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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman

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I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little. I was not a normal kid, but I had a sense of innocence far longer than we let kids.

Melissa Peterman

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The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

John Jakes

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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Tom Hiddleston

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Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

Mason Cooley

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