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Quotes About Innocent

A lady had no business going around not murdering people when she had excellent motive, plausible means, and the correct temperament. Elspeth was decisive, physically strong, and by her own admission capable of coaxing along a seedling of a grudge until it flowered. "How dare she be innocent." I muttered. "It is most inconsiderate.
~ Deanna Raybourn
No justice that imperiled the innocent could ever be true, and Beatrice's recklessness spoke volumes as to her rage.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.
~ Robert Breault
Now is not the time to grow weary in the face of evil. Now is not the time to allow our hunger for peace to obscure our enemy's desire for war. Innocent lives are at stake, and immense evil is on the march. Let's call our nation to action again.
~ Jay Sekulow
When fully fluffed they looked like oversized wads of dryer lint with six little paws and two big, innocent blue eyes.
~ Jayne Castle
his lips. "I fear, Mama, that I am not. But I am innocent in this case.
~ Jean Plaidy
Grâces au ciel, mes mains ne sont point criminelles. Plût aux dieux que mon cÅ"ur fût innocent comme elles!
~ Jean Racine
Thank goodness these people have been converted," Felix said with relief after the Saxons let us go. "They're devout enough to send missionaries safely on their way." "It's too bad they're not devout enough to remember the phrase 'Thou shalt not kill,' " I said sadly. "Yes, they let us live, but how many innocent people will die at their hands tomorrow?
~ Jeff Guinn
Never again becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say. Never again jail and torture. Never again the suffering of innocent people, or the shooting of starving, frightened, terrified children. And never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence. It's a prayer.
~ Elie Wiesel
For let not the unhappy wretch, who forgets his duties towards God and man, who gives himself up to the indulgence of his passions, and wrongs the innocent, think, if he escapes detection, he can be happy: alas! remorse and sorrow will one day assail him; he will find he cannot hide his crimes from himself, and his own conscience will prove his bitterest punishment.
~ Eliza Parsons
It seemed impossible that men with hearts and brains were capable of it. Such devastation of cities, so many innocent lives lost. It seemed to him that if just a small part of the effort put into war could be put into peace, they'd be so much better off
~ Elizabeth Berg
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
It is a misconception that the innocent sleep well. The worse a man is, the more profound his slumber; for if he had a conscience, he would not be a villain. When
~ Elizabeth Peters
Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid....
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The princess, however, most innocent of excellent women, had never spoken privately to Anna of Karlchen except once, when she inquired whether he were to have the best sheets on his bed, or the second best sheets; and Anna had replied, "The worst.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Earth, Ruald had said, is innocent. Only the use we make of it can mar it. Yes, earth and many other things, knowledge, skill, strength, all innocent until use mars them.
~ Ellis Peters
She'd never go so far as to consider she'd made a mistake marrying someone whose interior furnishings and emotional tastes were so hopelessly different than her own—for Dick was innocent
~ Alice Elliott Dark
From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.
~ Alison Weir
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
~ Harry Browne
I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.
~ Gurinder Chadha
I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.
~ Amy Adams
If there's a kids' corner at a party, that's where you'll find me.
~ Toni Garrn
I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
~ Rain
Hui and E'dawn have many talents, and I can learn a lot from them. But they just lack experience. When I am with them, I feel like I become very innocent, and it motivates me. I guess it's because I am too used to performing as a soloist, and things have become too comfortable hitting the stage alone.
~ Hyuna