Complicitous Quotes

#1. But after I'd survived for so long on the scraps from my own emotional table, you spoiled me with a daily banquet of complicitous what-an-asshole looks at parties, surprise bouquets for no occasion, and fridge-magnet notes that always signed off XXXX, Franklin.

Lionel Shriver

#2. Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.

Camille Paglia

#3. The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Pierre Bourdieu

#4. But Lupe both genuinely worshiped Our Lady of Guadalupe and fiercely doubted her; Lupe's doubt was borne by the child's judgmental sense that Guadalupe had submitted to the Virgin Mary - that Guadalupe was complicitous in allowing Mother Mary to be in control.

John Irving

#5. In a very real sense, we are complicitous in their achievement, since we are the audience for which they were performing; knowing we would be watching helped to keep them on their best behavior.

Joseph J. Ellis

#6. Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.

Amor Towles

#7. I got precious little time for you to belong to me. I'm gonna make sure it isn't any shorter than it has to be.

Jodi Picoult

#8. Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter

#9. Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Gerard Way

#10. If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

Kenny Ortega

#11. The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

#12. Social media is a great tool for all of us introverts and decent people alike as it speeds up the time between thinking someone is great and realizing they're the worst. I

Amy Schumer

#13. Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

Jeb Bush

#14. He more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.

Shawn Achor