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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.


Graham Greene

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GRAHAM GREENE Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
BRENDAN FRASER No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have mea...
SAI BABA How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls! That lonely bel...
CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a...
DAN BROWN To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a...
MANLY P. HALL Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted ...
SHIV NADAR My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno...
ROBERT HARRIS Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's be...
AYN RAND Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
H. W. ARNOLD My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w...
JAMES D. WATSON Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.
IVICA DACIC Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ...
G. K. CHESTERTON My thoughts just now are with Graham. He has lost his job, and that was harsh. I feel strongly about...
JIM DUFFY Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside wor...
GILES FODEN The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily c...
OSCAR WILDE (OSCAR FINGAL O'FLAHERTIE WILDE) I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green...
ALAN FURST He who has not lost his head over some things has no head to lose
JEAN PAUL RICHTER I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA Graham hyper-extended his knee and it has ended up a bit sore. There is no structural damage but we ...
CHRIS CONNOLLY Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
FLORENCE KING There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost ...
SUSAN HILL He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
GRAHAM GREENE The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning i...
JANNE TELLER He has maintained his innocence.
JOE WARREN To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...
GARY L. FRANCIONE I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to...
HAZEL B. WEST In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expe...
ALLAN SHERMAN There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.
MENCIUS The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug...
DEBORAH EISENBERG The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies...
ALEISTER CROWLEY For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ...
NEIL TENNANT The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart.
MENCIUS The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies...
ALEISTER CROWLEY Ceremony. When we've lost that, we've lost everything, and are only wandering in the dark, like chic...
RICK BASS I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...
MICHAEL KORDA The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many peop...
SIMON SINEK A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments...
CHARLES SPURGEON Weight loss doesn't begin in the gym with a dumb bell; it starts in your head with a decision.
TONI SORENSON I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun b...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND Greene played like a monster tonight.
ERIC KING The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. -Mecius.
MECIUS The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line th...
STEVE GLEASON No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow...
BERAN WOLFE We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. ...
SALMAN AZIZ There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramopho...
MARVIN AMMORI This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature,...
VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER Mr. Graham, your honor, stands on his presumption of innocence and rests, I decided the best way to ...
DAN COGDELL There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Ignorance is learned and innocence is lost, but...not forgotten.
JEANNE YOUNG There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he ha...
A. P. GOUTHEY There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has...
A. P. GOUTHEY It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
HENRY ADAMS It is always good men who do the most harm in the world
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull ...
MARK TWAIN Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the m...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
CLINT EASTWOOD The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.
JOHN CURTIN Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the count...
GLENN GREENWALD He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...
HENRY MILLER Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
CHARLES DICKENS Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don'...
T. S. ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't...
T. S. ELIOT Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
T. S. ELIOT Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time as to life.
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON Teacher is not a leper
BART SIMPSON Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the m...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king am...
HELEN KELLER There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king...
HELEN KELLER I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way ...
HENNING MANKELL It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his d...
MARK TWAIN As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instin...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the min...
ANN RADCLIFFE I will never understand why the truth, a thing everyone claims to want, is treated like a leper.
BOBBY W. MILLER I feel violated. Like there is no safety around, no guarantees that anything you do ethically or hon...
IGNACIO RAMIREZ Toronto has finally lost its innocence. I think we're going to feel this day for a long time to come...
SAVAS KYRIACOU I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH There is no pain greater than a lover who just got heartbroken and a mother who has lost her child.
OLASOT Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
HENRY MILLER

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BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE