Grandiloquence Define Quotes & Sayings

What are the consequences of thinking that your intelligence or personality is something you can develop, as opposed to something that is a fixed, deep-seated trait? — Carol S. Dweck

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting. — Sarah Dessen

Let's see, what've we got for the little girl to eat? Nothing, I hoped, but he brought a tin of Christmas candies, which seemed to have melted then hardened then melted again, so the colored stripes had run. They had a taste of nails. — Alice Munro

Who is satisfied, like the trees, with just existing? — Marty Rubin

It is intellectually and spiritually incoherent to believe in the innocent play of children when you are willing to sacrifice them upon the altar of your ambition, your avarice, your lusts, or your convenience. You cannot suppress the reality of the child without amputating your humanity and searing the wound with bitumen and pitch. The — Anthony M. Esolen

Girls were good at coloring in those disappointing blank spots. — Emma Cline

I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model. — Karen Elson

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment. — Aziz Ansari

Do you ever think about when you outta here?
Record deal and video, outta here!?
Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!? — KRS-One

remained though, strong as ever, despite them being apart for so long. He — Gina Kincade

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better. — Norman Ralph Augustine

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. — Abraham Lincoln

The way his angry eyes assessed me alone could have made me cum, like I was a piece of fuck meat, good for nothing more than taking his spunk. — Asia Marquis

I said: All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant and I don't want the child to be born with ... — Dashiell Hammett

I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that. — Joshua Wong