Innocent Quotes - page 4

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. (Miloš Forman)
Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated. View quote
Chuck Grassley
She gave me a wide-eyed, innocent smile that looked as out of place on her as it would have on a desert scorpion. View quote
George Alec Effinger
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did"; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. View quote
Izaak Walton
No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime. View quote
Joe Biden
Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it. View quote
William Shakespeare
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. View quote
Elizabeth I of England
I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky. View quote
R. S. Thomas
I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations. View quote
Barack Obama
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children. View quote
Barack Obama
When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged innocent. (Klaus Barbie)
I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family! View quote
Fritz Sauckel
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public. View quote
Akira Kurosawa
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. View quote
Arthur Miller
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler, and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people. View quote
Ben Stein
Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an "innocent victim" only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. View quote
Adam Smith
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. View quote
Peter Straub
There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty. (Frank Luntz)
I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent. View quote
Holly Black
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. View quote
Hugo Hamilton
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent. View quote
Sándor Márai
The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon