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Quotes About Naivety

When you're young, you do think that things last forever
~ Philip Pullman
I liked this guy a lot. And I thought he liked me a lot, but in truth he didn't really like me at all. He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything-he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with flirts-you lose all sense of proportion. So I made a fool of myself, even though I didn't realize it at the time. I was so devoted to him.
~ David Levithan
You know you're young when someone asks you for money and you take it as a compliment.
~ David Sedaris
Nothing is one hundred percent reliable this side of paradise, except that your cell-phone provider will never fulfill the service promises that you were naïve enough to believe.
~ Dean Koontz
Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
~ Benjamin Hoff
La santa criatura ignoraba que donde empieza la ambición cesan los sentimientos ingenuos.
~ Honore de Balzac
N'était-ce pas le seul dieu moderne auquel on ait foi, l'Argent dans toute sa puissance, exprimé par une seule physionomie ? Les doux sentiments de la vie n'occupaient là qu'une place secondaire, ils animaient trois cœurs purs, ceux de Nanon, d'Eugénie et sa mère. Encore, combien d'ignorance dans leur naïveté !
~ Honore de Balzac
C'è sempre un ingenuo... pronto a sacrificarsi per una donna...
~ Hugo Pratt
Soon he would see war. Jis romanticism and inexperience insulated him from the thought that he might feel it, too.
~ Unknown
Supón que eres en parte hipócrita y en parte incauto, y no estarás muy equivocado.
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Un tonto: un hombre tratando de ser honesto con los deshonestos.
~ Idries Shah
All at once she was eighteen, a stupid girl with a stupid crush who believed that someone like Will might actually see her as anything more the his best friend's kid sister.
~ Unknown
As an actor, you blindly put your trust in experts - and if they tell you something's safe, you don't fully vet it yourself. If you're young and inexperienced, that's just what you're taught to do.
~ Dylan O'Brien
I naively thought that all I had to do to pull this off was toss my fat history out like trash. I couldn't make the deal fast enough.
~ Unknown
He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.
~ Jim Butcher
I find it remarkable how often amateurs confuse courage with idiocy.
~ Jim Butcher
O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.
~ Joan Didion
It did not occur to me to call a doctor, because I knew none, and although it did occur to me to call the desk and ask that the air conditioner be turned off, I never called, because I did not know how much to tip whoever might come—was anyone ever so young?
~ Joan Didion
They come from all over, and they are on the average very young, very earnest, and not very much in touch with the larger scene, less refugees from it than children who do not quite apprehend it.
~ Joan Didion
We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.
~ Jodi Picoult
Dear life, can we go back to when boys had cooties, homework was 2+2, and the drama was over who stole my crayons?
~ Unknown
Beware of a naked person who promises to buy you clothes.
~ Unknown
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
To the pure all things are pure!
~ Marcel Proust