#innocent

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

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent. ↗

— Barry White

#came #cat #chops #cops #detectives

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #cannot #feign #himself #innocence

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. ↗

— George Orwell

#guilty #innocent #judged #proved #saints

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#criminality #damage #friends #gangsters #i

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#absolute #better #certainly #could #define

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#became #completely #good #himself #his

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? ↗

— Jim Garrison

#derive #even #guilty #hounded #i

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity. ↗

— John Lone

#art #grew #i #identity #innocent

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#after #american #antidote #been #bin