Innocent As Doves Quotes & Sayings

For me, there is a strong hypnotic power in noise-music, and that's something I don't want to leave out of my music anymore. — Christian Fennesz

Nothing is higher than the love of truth. — Prudentius

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What if each child was taught from the cradle to sing the song of peace...would the cynics not call it foolish, saying that to be gentle is to be weak? But I tell you that until we are as innocent and pure as doves, our journey will be long and the way dark. Raise doves, not wolves. — Joann Davis

It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action. — Syncletica Of Alexandria

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] — Juvenal

Be ye innocent as doves yet wise as serphants new testament quoted by Elvis Presley and applied to karate — Elvis Presley

When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves. — Dennis Lehane

The doves, as we know, must be killed according to the law before Mary's purification can be acknowledged and ratified. Any ironic or irreverent disciple of Voltaire will find it difficult to resist making the obvious remark that, things being what they are, purity can be maintained only so long as there are innocent creatures to sacrifice in this world, whether turtledoves, lambs, or others. — Jose Saramago

Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be p wise as serpents and q innocent as doves. — Anonymous

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her. — Leonardo Da Vinci

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones. — Dee Dee Ramone

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI. — Dennis C. Blair

You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves. — Dennis Lehane

My face was growing hot, but I kept talking. "You're the only one who believes in me most of the time."

He shook his head. "You keep us going. Everybody knows that."

"But you're the one who keeps me going. You're what I'm fighting for in all this. — Tarah Benner