Quotes About Innocent

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Her incapacity to recognize change made her children conceal their views from her as Archer concealed his; there had been, from the first, a joint pretense of sameness, a kind of innocent family hypocrisy, in which father and children had unconsciously collaborated. And she died thinking the world a good place, full of loving and harmonious households like her own.

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile.

They laughed the innocent laughter of two snobs taking a holiday from that need to appear tolerant and open-minded which marred what Nicholas still called 'modern life,' although he had never known any other kind.

All of which is a digression, but it is common sense and perhaps may one day save you from needless terror or from needless cruelty to an innocent animal.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

A tutti l'"humilis ytalus Dantes Alagherii florentinus et exul inmeritus", esule cioè senza colpa, come ormai da tempo amava definirsi, augurava la pace; li invitava a rallegrarsi per il sorgere di un nuovo giorno e l'arrivo di un nuovo Mosè; ed esortava i discendenti dei Longobardi a ricordarsi di essere innanzitutto Troiani e Romani.

They settled the question, by deciding that misfortunes most commonly happen to us from our own misconduct or imprudence; but sometimes from causes independent of ourselves; that the most innocent and prudent conduct cannot always preserve us from them; and that, whether they arise from our own fault or not, trust in God softens them, and renders them useful in preparing us for a better life.

We're needed to save an innocent barrel of wine from a lecherous duke's son.

Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

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.

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

I'm really a clean-cut kid.

I'm kind of a clean-cut guy - I've got a little bit of a baby face.

If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.

I always play the sweet girl next door.