Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have…

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No matter what someone has said or did to you just know there's a reason behind everything they do. Its not like it has…

— Jade Surette

“In this book we paint an unprecedented portrait of Britain’s first ‘false memory’ retraction and show that, like other ‘false memory’ cases which appeared…

— Beatrix Campbell

“(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children) So what does this movement consist of? Who…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed? After all,…

— Beatrix Campbell

“God is a witness to anything done in secret.”

— Lailah Gifty, Akita

There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed…

— Judith Viorst

“Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your…

— Erica Jong

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human…

— Colin Farrell

“Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.”

— Phyllis Theroux

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

— James Altucher

“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this…

— Lewis Hyde

“One often feels exalted, expanded, in his presence. He is not one of those egotists who miniaturize others. He is the opposite kind of…

— Michael Cunningham