Exaggerated Quotes - Page 6

• I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Encroachment, Interest

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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• But, before we in America critique East Asia, we must also recognize that we are - unfortunately - taking on some of the same characteristics. Getting in the top institutions has become far more difficult and the value placed on one school over another in terms of education and careers has been much exaggerated.

  Henry Rosovsky

  School, Careers, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For me, every human is a little bit an exaggerated version of a real human - in most cases, they are versions of myself. I am someone deeply motivated by extremes - the poles not only become home for me, but they also become, strangely, my comfort zones.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Real, Home, Comfort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  Seth Godin

  Swimming, Risk, Celebrate

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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 and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

  Manu Joseph

  Memories, Reality, Men

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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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 that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a man who prays and his strength and his power cannot by exaggerated. Just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotence.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1922). “The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage”

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• People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.

  Joe Orton

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Complete Plays".

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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 to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Stress, Men

  Of Human Bondage ch. 39 (1915)

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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 hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

  Tacitus

  Doubt, Obscurity, Facts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1860). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...”, p.119

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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, they reverted quickly to their genotype - increasingly typical of black societies around the world. Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America. Females reverted to the age-old African model of maternal provisioning of children.

  David Duke

  Children, Independent, America

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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 people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, People, Honor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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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, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Men, Selfishness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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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 yet in the old tart.

  John Lahr

  New York, News, Demise

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Half, Said

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

  Courtney Love

  People, Culture, Sexuality

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Feelings, Social

  HERBERT SPENCER (1874). “THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY”, p.421

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• Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Rap, People

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• There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.

  Jaron Lanier

  Expression, People, Enemy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Girl, Moving, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Mark Twain

  White, Rumor, Demise

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• There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Believe, Moderation

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• I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

  Thomas Merton

  Success, Writing, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1996). “Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer”, Harper San Francisco

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• exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

  Stephen Dunn

  Rain, Sunset, Animal

  Stephen Dunn (2010). “Different Hours: Poems”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Bill Bradley

  Demise, Said, Mark

  "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

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