Exaggerated Quotes
192 quotes by 175 authors
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Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap 
— Boyd K. Packer
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We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
— Seth Godin
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That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief…
— Manu Joseph
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You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible…
— Joe Orton
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious…
— Tacitus
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Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture,…
— David Duke
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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life…
— John Lahr
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All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
— Julian Barnes
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Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an…
— Kiersten White
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The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.
— Leland Stanford
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The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
— Conrad Black
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We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so…
— Eric Cantor
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In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
— Warwick Davis
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Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't…
— Lisa Edelstein
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The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion -…
— Henry Steele Commager
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