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Innocently Quotes (page 8)

There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion. The name of this article was Twemlow. Charles Dickens
a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow sunlight that are bitterly nostalgic for the summer that has gone by. Stephen King
No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. Anne Rice
Dean Koontz quote: "In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is..."
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. Dean Koontz
at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again Werner Herzog
When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so much an impediment in his speech as a quality of his soul, a sort of vestige of early childhood innocence that he had never lost. Each consonant he could not pronounce appeared to be another instance of a hardness of which he was incapable. Marcel Proust
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "It's not the innocent young things that need gentle..."
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. Dorothy L. Sayers
In pictures like these there are always empty shoes. It's the shoes that get to me. Sad, that innocent daily task - putting your shoes on your feet, in the firm belief that you'll be going somewhere. Margaret Atwood
By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none. Shall mistress be of it save I alone. William Shakespeare
For this freedom. I have given all I had. For this darkness. I gave my light. For this wisdom. I have lost my innocence. Take my petals. And cover me with the night Emilie Autumn
But how will you bear an absentminded man who, if he happens to see you, will kill you? That is what tries the nerves, abstraction combined with cruelty. Men have felt it sometimes when they went through wild forests, and felt that the animals there were at once innocent and pitiless. They might ignore or slay. How would you like to pass ten mortal hours in a parlour with an absent-minded tiger? Gilbert K. Chesterton
Don DeLillo quote: "A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become..."
A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become intelligence. Don DeLillo
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures. Fulton J. Sheen
Antonin Scalia quote: "Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carryout a death..."
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carryout a death sentence properly reached. Antonin Scalia
I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it would never have done to have an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High Street. I whistled and made nothing of going. But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in a moment with a strong heave and... Charles Dickens

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