Arriere Pensee Quotes & Sayings

She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips. — Elizabeth Bowen

Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority. — James A.C. Brown

Prosperity's the very bond of love. — William Shakespeare

If it's not the RIGHT thing to do it's something else! — Ruth Lizana-Jackson

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves? — Lena Williams

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. — David Gergen

I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement. — Sam Lipsyte

With this pregnancy, unlike my others, I was fully aware of the possibility of blissful, painless, potentially even orgasmic, and fully natural, unmedicalized childbirth from the beginning. After reaching my second trimester, I was relaxing in the bath after my children had gone to sleep, when suddenly I felt a profound connection with the little girl within me. She communicated to me how this birth was going to go. How it was going to feel. In essence, I knew she would pass easily out of my body. — Adrienne Carmack

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do. — Peter Cushing

I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding — William Golding

My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?' — Warren Hutcherson

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. — Jane Austen

I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great quarrels and wars, and it wooed the power of temporal authorities, and made them part of itself in the hope of resolving through sheer force its many arguments. — Anne Rice

Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood. — Theodor Adorno