Innocence Project Quotes

#1. Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Norman Lamm

#2. And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

John Grisham

#3. I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.

Tony Goldwyn

#4. That first group of Manchester players allowed me to enjoy coaching at a very young age that motivated me to do it. If it wasn't good, I might have made a career change.

Steve Alford

#5. My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.
But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

Charlie Chaplin

#6. Yet when it happens to me that the music moves me more than the subject of the song, I confess myself to commit a sin deserving punishment, and then I would prefer not to have heard the singer.

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

Chuck D

#8. I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

River Phoenix

#9. Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

Karl Lagerfeld

#10. Actions, not knowledge, bring result.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

Patricia Cornwell

#12. Real compassion is based on reason. Ordinary compassion or love is limited by desire or attachment.

Dalai Lama XIV

#13. He wouldn't have to search for her long. She was nestled in his thoughts like a pebble in his shoe. His mind pointed toward her as if she were true north.

India Drummond

#14. I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Paulo Coelho

#16. I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Donna Tartt

#17. Their intensive 1 -day nature photography instructional seminars. Both love to teach others how to make their own fine photographs.

Anonymous

#18. My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'

Damon Lindelof

#19. The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

John Locke