Innocent Quotes - Page 36

• When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Employment, Littles, Felons

  The Pirates of Penzance act 2 (1879)

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• In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, Girl, Buddhist

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.41, Grove Press

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• To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Country, Art

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences". Book by Thomas Huxley (p. 29), 1854.

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• There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

  Homer

  Sleep, Singing, And Love

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

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• The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

  Moss Hart

  Theatre, Sadism, Kind

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

  MyAnna Buring

  Men, Innocent Man, Causes

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• I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

  Lenora Crichlow

  Fashion, Clothes, Style

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• I didn't kill innocent people.

  Bill Ayers

  People

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• We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

  Paul Cellucci

  Country, War, Impact

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• I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Thinking, Innocent Person

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• Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

  John Garamendi

  United States, Constitution, Guilty

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• It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

  Krista Allen

  Self, Trying, Hitting

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• We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

  Pat Benatar

  Inspirational, Enemy, Faces

  Song: Invincible, Album: Seven the Hard Way, 1985

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• Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.

  LL Cool J

  Art, Media, Taught

  Song: The Power of God, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

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• Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

  Hans Koning

  Life, Littles

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• A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

  Derrick Bell

  Inspirational, Grief, Gains

  Derrick A. Bell (1994). “Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Fire, Waiting, Age

  Song: The Innocent Age, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Progress

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• You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent.

  Britney Spears

  Honesty, Thinking

  Song: Oops! ...I Did It Again, 2000

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• One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

  David E. Kelley

  Ideas, People, Everyday

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• I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

  Jo Nesbo

  Reading, Culture, Keith

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• I eat innocent meat, the house wife I will beat, the prolife I will kill. What you won't do, I will.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wife, House, Meat

  Song: Get Your Gunn

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled.

  J. William Fulbright

  Strong, Airplane, Israel

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• I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.

  Ridley Pearson

  Book, Fans, Firsts

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