Exaggerate Quotes
131 quotes by 115 authors
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
— Honore de Balzac
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something.…
— George H. W. Bush
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
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The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud.…
— Dan Barker
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Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound…
— Thomas George Bonney
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I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
— Nahum Goldmann
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate…
— Radha Mitchell
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Some have immersed themselves in internet materials that magnify, exaggerate, and in some cases invent shortcomings of early Church leaders. Then they draw incorrect conclusions…
— Quentin L. Cook
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Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
— Bill Delahunt
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Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of…
— Laurie Penny
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If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I…
— Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah
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If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the swarming masses. I can flirt and…
— Joshua Jackson
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Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to…
— Price Pritchett
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
— George Bernard Shaw
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If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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