The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you. - Whitney Otto I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face. - May Sarton

I am an American, Chicago born Chicago, that somber city and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles. - Saul Bellow Time for bed. I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure. - James Patterson One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorn...

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. - Ronald Reagan Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. - Kenzaburo Oe

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy. - Coolio I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty. - Puff Daddy You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. - Richard M Nixon It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question." "What was that?" "Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer?" I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. "I am never going to share my pet peeves with you again." - Jennifer Rardin

I am not guilty, I am innocent. - Saddam Hussein I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself. - Jarod Kintz I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. - Pontius Pilate I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name. - Martha Stewart

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 I am not guilty, I am innocent. - Saddam Hussein I am innocent! But only because the opportunity to partake in an activity that would render me guilty has not presented itself. - Jarod Kintz I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. - Pontius Pilate I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name. - Martha Stewart