Innocence Quotes - Page 37

• I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

  Mike Figgis

  Moving, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  Bianca Jagger

  Innocent Person, People, Killing

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• Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.

  Charles A. Reich

  Optimism, Depth, Fundamentals

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

  David Bentley Hart

  Recovery, Ends

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• A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.

  Ami McKay

  War, Writing, Character

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• Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Forget, Clean, States

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• The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iraq, People, Soldier

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• If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.

  Michael Franti

  Children, Wall, War

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• I'm not saying eating babies should be legal, but when they're so delicious, what's the harm in it? I don't know what tastes better, their innocence or their gooey rib butter.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Ribs, Taste

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• I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

  Sally Kirkland

  Writing, Ideas, Insecurity

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• Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

  John Dryden

  Children, Men, Wit

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.364, Pearson Education

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• Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

  John Jakes

  Essence, Heaven, Losing

  John Jakes (2013). “The North and South Trilogy: North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell”, p.3369, Open Road Media

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Hero, Gay

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.290

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• What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

  Annie Dillard

  Spirit, Moments, Devotion

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.83, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
  [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

  Moliere

  Accustomed

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• The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Heart, Creativity

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• The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Smell, Hot, Milk

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• It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

  Anais Nin

  Perfection, Forgiving, Judgment

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• For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

  Frederick William Robertson

  Dream, Integrity, Party

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109

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• There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Mirth, Pity

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.282

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• The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

  Joseph Addison

  Half, World, Next

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• Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Hypocrisy, Safety

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.23

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

  Leigh Hunt

  Growing Up, Children, Blessed

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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• Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

  John Milton

  Hypocrite, Mysterious, Purity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 738

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• Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Dresses, Lost

  Common Sense (1776)

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