Exaggerated Quotes

192 quotes by 175 authors

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience… — Shigeru Yoshida
Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex… — Margaret Mahy
Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated. — Rose Macaulay
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. — H. L. Mencken
The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be… — Miles Kington
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude… — Orison Swett Marden
I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot… — Manolo Blahnik
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless;… — Josef Pieper
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by… — Dava Sobel
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological… — Satish Kumar
I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand… — Ozwald Boateng
The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self. — Deepak Chopra
Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has… — Naomi Klein
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar… — Franjo Tu?man
These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. — James K. Glassman
Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in… — Germaine Greer
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. — Robert Breault
Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and… — Dalai Lama
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the… — Ed Wynn
Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? — Arthur Conan Doyle

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