#innocent

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#company #elements #fairy #fairy tale #fairy tales

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#devised #dwell #happens #humane #innocent

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#destruction #imagine #innocent #mass #men

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation. ↗

— Krista Allen

#hitting #innocent #just #like #little

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#legislature #man #now #now and then #sent

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked. ↗

— Charles Lawrence

#civil #civil society #firm #gentlemen #guardian

So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled. ↗

— Malorie Blackman

#humor #innocent #malorie-blackman #noughts-and-crosses #sephy

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on. ↗

— Annabel Pitcher

#god #humor #innocent #middle-finger #privacy

His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber ↗

— Alison Weir

#funny #guilford-dudley #innocent-traitor #jane-grey #funny