Innocence Quotes - Page 15

• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Dream, Thinking

  Pierre bk. 4 (1852)

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• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

  Brian Eno

  Feelings, Want, Position

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• I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

  River Phoenix

  Way, Grew Up, Projects

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

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• No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Past

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 10, 2011

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• Like the Bible says.  A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence.  Didnt Jesus say bring on the children?  Be like the children.  Not childish, but child-like.  That kind of innocence.

  Michael Jackson

  Jesus, Children, Leader

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• The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a childs heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that. What we need to learn from children isnt childish. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. They know the way to solutions that lie waiting to be recognized within our own hearts.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Lying, Believe

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• I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

  John Lone

  Art, Age, Identity

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• The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Presumption Of Innocence, Jail

  "Hannity & Colmes", August 24, 2001.

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• Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

  Jackie Jackson

  Today, Mets, Stills

  "The Pilgrimage Of Jesse Jackson". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Believe, Lust, Too Much

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• No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, White, Black

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• The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Mean

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• Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

  Nick Gordon

  Sweet, Halloween, Treats

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• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  Ang Lee

  Birthday, Memories, Years

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• I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.

  David Oshinsky

  Winter, Boys, America

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• Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

  Bai Ling

  Dream, Believe, Like You

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• I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

  Peter Slipper

  Believe, Presumption Of Innocence, Persons

  "Oppn launches twin attempts to interrupt Parliament". "AM " with Naomi Woodley, www.abc.net.au. May 8, 2012.

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• In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

  Frederick Lenz

  Evil, Good And Evil

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• Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

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• Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Healthy Choices, Life Choices, Aspects Of Life

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.

  Abba Kovner

  Experience, World, Want

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• There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

  Horace

  Calumny Is, Calumny, Loses

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