Quotes tagged ‘Innocence’

“When we’re willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation”

— Marianne Williamson, amazon.com

“If babies are innocent, it is not for lack of will to do harm, but for lack of strength.”

— Augustine of Hippo, amazon.com

“Michael: You have to answer for Santino, Carlo. You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Carlo Rizzi: Mike, you got it all wrong. Michael: Ah, that little farce you played with my sister. You think that would fool a Corleone? Carlo Rizzi: Mike, I'm innocent. I swear on the kids. Michael: Sit down.…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Corleone, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It’s that power can be innocent.”

— David S. Goyer, Chris Terrio, Lex Luthor, Jesse Eisenberg, imdb.com

“No matter who we are, we all experience moments of dread. When we ask ourselves: Will anyone believe I'm innocent? Will my daughter be a child of divorce? Will this man break my heart? Are there things that go bump in the night? And sometimes, the answer is yes.”

— Marc Cherry, Brian Tanen, imdb.com

“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“I’ve taken 3 1/2 hours of truth serum—sodium amytal—the maximum amount I could have. It shows I have no knowledge of the crime whatsoever.”

— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com

“When I was much younger, I should probably have enjoyed the innocent gayeties of life, as much as most of my age.”

— Martha Washington, amazon.com

“For if a woman have an innocent, unsuspecting soul as delicate as the curled cup of a Nile lily, the more easily will it droop and wither in the heated grasp of a careless, cruel hand.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“If it is bad to debase the innocence of a private individual, whose influence on the affairs of the world is minimal, it is much more to pervert some prince who must control his people, administer justice, and set an example for their subjects;””

— Frederick the Great, amazon.com

“The wars were so long ago, nobody even remembers. Darkness and fear ruled until the time of the barons, seven men and women who forged order out of chaos. People flocked to them for protection. That protection became servitude. They banished guns and trained armies of lethal fighters they called Cli…”

— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, M.K., Aramis Knight, imdb.com

“This feeling I’ve lost. That’s what really puzzles.”

— Joseph Brodsky, poetryfoundation.org

“I get these moments when I have to lie down because everything feels sort of too much. And I look up and see the blue, or the grey, or the black, and I feel myself melting into it. And, for like a split second, I feel free and happy. Innocent. Like a dog or an alien. Or a baby.”

— Charlie Covell, Alyssa, Jessica Barden, imdb.com

“Gideon: I think you're innocent. Sarah Jean Dawes: We're all guilty of something.”

— Simon Mirren, Jason Gideon, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com

“It's not what I meant. I meant Michael. [pauses] He'll always know that there are things out there in the dark. He'll never be the same, you know? Sometimes I wish that...I wish I could have that kind of innocence.”

— Daniel Knauf, Sam Winchester, Jared Padalecki, imdb.com

“I'm protecting the innocent. If I step on a few toes in the meanwhile, so be it.”

— Kurt Sutter, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com

“Our country's lost its innocence.”

— Liz Tigelaar, Drew Meyers, Zak Orth, imdb.com

“Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.”

— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”

— Jim Henson, goodreads.com

“It is okay to be vulnerable, because when you are vulnerable, you are innocent. Innocence is our gift from God.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com