Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Lennox

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

Nicolas Roeg

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

William Shakespeare

I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

Until Majority Leader Tom DeLay has his day in court, it is vitally important he be afforded the same presumption of innocence afforded to every other American,

William Shakespeare

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

Elizabeth I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Bruce Springsteen

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Bruce Springsteen

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Bob Taft

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Diane Wakoski

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

David Schwimmer

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

Byron Katie

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Edith Wharton

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Eartha Kitt

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Barney Frank

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Joan Bennett

I was greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don't think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.

Brian Eno

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

Bob Dole

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Deepak Chopra

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence

Wayne Smith

Had it not been for the DNA testing done by, and in some ways, forced by the Innocence Project, these people would still be incarcerated or on Death Row. The Innocence Project has helped save lives.

He insists on his innocence and will defend it vigorously.

James Watson

I don't know exactly what evidence they have against my client, but I can tell you he is innocent. We'll be able to prove his innocence in that case just as we proved he was innocent of the rape charge.

But when she had information that according to her would help demonstrate the president's innocence ... she selfishly refused to provide it to the grand jury or anyone.

Steve Ross

Based on the scope and character of the similarities it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious act.

Robert Forster

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

Louis MacNeice

My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

Salman Rushdie

I think it's a stupid way to read a book, ... to say that because something happens to one person the author is trying to suggest that all people are like this. The novel is the art of the particular. And I'm talking about a particular person whose development from innocence to guilt, if you like, is his own particular narrative arc. The point is to make that coherent - not to read the book as some kind of simple allegory, but to read it as a story about a person.

I was the quintessence of sweetness and innocence as an Alice in Wonderland-ish little girl, so I guess no one ever expected such darkness from me.

I was with him in the store and I was with him in bed when he was taken. Overnight everything was changed. Innocence was gone. Things I experienced that night, I never even dreamed of happening. It had a negative effect on my life but I made the best of what I had. I didn't let it destroy me.

Robert Gottlieb

I will do everything in my power to make sure he gets a fair trial and that the presumption of innocence is alive again in that courtroom.

Randeep Hooda

It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.

Bijou Phillips

I never had innocence.