The whole series is about the loss of innocence, ... In the first one 'The Sorcerer's Stone', everyone's very wide-eyed, almost nave. Harry's thinking that because he's entering a magical world, it's got to be better than the world he's come from. But it's not it's just got further extremes. It can have extreme joy, but there are also the depths that man can sink to.
Quotes about nave (16 Quotes)
Money would be taken away from the Department of Defense to fund programs such as a Peace Academy and prisoner rehabilitation, ... The creation of a Department of Peace is a nave and unreasonable approach to dealing with the problems of the 21st century, including international terrorism.
I have recently received several complaints about your so-called guitar players who parade themselves back and forth across the nave of St. Patrick's Church in front of the pews,
I recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me nave, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.
Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.
This country will not change without a change of government, ... I don't believe that the people are nave enough to accept the prime minister's assertion that foreign affairs and other issues will be resolved if the postal services are privatized.
I realized that one gets nowhere unless one talks to people about the things they know. The nave person does not appreciate what an insult it is to talk to one's fellows about anything that is unknown to them. They pardon such ruthless behavior only in a writer, journalist or poet.
It would be completely nave to think that one of the folders on his desk isn't selling the business.
Unless you're a little nave as to how the weather is in this country, it still gets cold in the winter, so we're not going to play the game all over the country.
I don't think it's bad for college students to have credit cards. They are a fact of life and it's nave to think they won't (have the cards).
We were so nave that we didn't think of the consequences,
We have an enormous fixation on, what seems to me to be, the nave idea that truth resides in what somebody wrote sometime in the past. If it's not written down, it isn't true. And that's absurd. But it's the way historians are trained you have to have a source, and if you don't have something you can cite from an original source, in the original language, then you're not a really good historian, you're are not scientific, you're not true .
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however nave that may have been, it was a good deal less nave than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
Certainly there were points of time when if a vote of confidence was coming, it would have come and didn't. So I'm not nave.
The IMF is well meaning perhaps, but the accountants and bankers are pretty nave, ... They said, 'Here, we can make you capitalists overnight, here's all this money and we'll feed the system.' And the Russians, who have been defrauding the state for 75 years -- who are masters at it -- said, 'Oh, look at this, we are being given all these presents.'
You can't impose your political feelings on your children, ... I thought about it, but I didn't think about it very torturously or hard. I'm 63 years old, and I'm not nave enough to think that my staying in Vermont would have any influence on the first lady or her husband.