#innocence

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#business #illusion #innocence #must #other

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#burden #centre #film #first #first time

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. ↗

— Ouida

#chicanery #innocence #kind #must #only

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#denying #female #freshness #i #i think

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. ↗

— Irving Howe

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There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#been #blake #experience #friends #his

My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you? ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#avarice #innocence #power #lust

If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is to a schoolboy. It is just because he does not want to steal, because he does not covet his neighbour's goods, that he has captured the trick (oh, how we all long for it!), the trick of coveting his own goods. It is just because he does not want to commit adultery that he achieves the romance of sex; it is just because he loves one wife that he has a hundred honeymoons. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#innocence #life

Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#innocence #morality #intelligence