Innocence Quotes - Page 20

• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Lying, Innocent

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• It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop of ice cream can be a Proustian draft of youth's innocence and energy and possibility, while a morsel of fine cheese is a rich meditation on maturity, the fulfillment of possibility, the way of all flesh.

  Harold McGee

  Maturity, Ice Cream, Meditation

  Harold McGee (2007). “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

  Damian Marley

  Motivational, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Strong Will Continue, Album: Distant Relatives, 2010

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• Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

  Doug Henning

  Purity And Innocence, Hustle And Bustle, Childhood

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• Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

  Patsy Kensit

  Children, Certain, Concepts

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

  Joseph Estrada

  People, Guarantees, Sides

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• It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fighting, People, Helping

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• They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Fun, Ems

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

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• Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

  Karl Shapiro

  Innocent, Dies, Unspoken

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

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• The artificial is always innocent.

  Frank O'Hara

  Innocent, Artificial

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.23, Univ of California Press

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• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

  Jack Abbott

  Suffering, Way, Innocent

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

  Douglas Sirk

  Character, Innocent

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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• The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

  Allen Tate

  Heart, Panthers, Innocent

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Past, Japan

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• I am not guilty, I am innocent.

  Saddam Hussein

  Guilty, Innocent, Not Guilty

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• Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

  Anthony Anderson

  Innocent, Victim, Innocent Victims

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

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• I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

  Ben Harper

  Sky, Criminals, Today

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• After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  World, Care, Innocent

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• People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Sight, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics

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• Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Important, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Innocent Man, Words Of Wisdom

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122

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• When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover

  Michael Drayton

  Eye, Closing Up, Bed

  'Idea' (1619) sonnet 61

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• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  Richard Jewell

  Men, Innocent Man, Names

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• The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.

  Paul Vixie

  Law, Rights, Government

  NANOG mailing list, 2004.

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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