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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. -- Alfred Adler
Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression. -- Volkmar Sigusch
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. -- Kelly Miller
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. -- Henry David Thoreau
Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist. -- Don Watson
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
One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated is that some people think we have made it when we have not and there's much to be done. -- Eleanor Smeal
Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them. -- Virginia H. Pearce
I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur. -- Courtney Love
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. -- Mark Twain
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. -- Marilyn Monroe
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated. -- Elon Musk
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. -- Christopher Lasch
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. -- Marcia Angell
The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated. -- Ahmed Chalabi
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. -- William Graham Sumner
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. -- James F. Cooper
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 years. -- Ed Wynn
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither. -- Dennis Prager
Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail. -- William Ernest Henley
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. -- George Gershwin
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. -- Pope John Paul II
I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. -- Richard Krajicek
We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. -- Shakti Gawain
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 reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. -- Franjo Tudjman
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me. -- Alex Ferguson
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so. -- Rob Sheffield
I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me. -- Matthew Broderick
Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. -- Pope Francis
Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects. -- Pope Francis
There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn't even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic. -- Shane Warne
It's funny: when people always talk about the importance of role models, I used to think that was so exaggerated, but as I get older, I start to realize I don't feel that way so much anymore. If you see somebody like you who's doing something, an older version of what you are, it does make you feel like it's more possible. -- Demetri Martin
Our differences should not be exaggerated. -- Dale Jamieson
The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated. -- Leland Stanford
A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense. -- Mark Twain
The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. -- Conrad Black
Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. -- Alan Johnson
I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts. -- Scott Ritter
Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself. -- Mary Lynn Rajskub
the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated. -- Mark Twain
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know. -- Albert Camus
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. -- Grace Darling
Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated. -- Jonathan Carroll
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. -- Albert Camus
I've never met a person who exaggerated God's love. Never. It's impossible. -- Judah Smith
Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms. -- Ian Mckellen
We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming. -- Seth Godin
Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. -- Maurice Strong
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self. -- Deepak Chopra
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result. -- Anthony Daniels
All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
It almost always happens that true, but exaggerated, coloring is more agreeable than absolute coloring. -- Michel Eugene Chevreul
Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. -- E. W. Howe
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,. -- Bill Bradley
I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated. -- Homer
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice, -- Boyd K. Packer
Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. -- James Shikwati
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many 7-letter words have five i's. -- Robert Breault
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. -- Warwick Davis
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills." -- Warwick Davis
Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. -- Kofi Annan
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' -- Nick Nolte
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. -- Paul Lynde
There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality. -- Courtney Love
You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality. -- Katy Perry
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. -- Richard Dawkins
Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality. -- Mark Fitzpatrick
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. -- Paul Gauguin
Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? -- Arthur Conan Doyle
These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. -- James K. Glassman
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. -- Herman Melville
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way. -- David Icke
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. -- John Maynard Keynes
I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want... -- Daniel Handler
In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy. -- Craig Kilborn
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. -- D. H. Lawrence
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. -- H. L. Mencken
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios. -- Michael Shermer
I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories. -- Richard Finney
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. -- Donald G. Mitchell
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. -- Vladimir Lenin
All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles. -- Fred Wilson
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things. -- Julian Barnes
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. -- J. William Fulbright
I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all. -- Manolo Blahnik
...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. -- Colum McCann
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes -- Ayn Rand
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes. -- Chris Hardwick
Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax. -- Cassandra Clare
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. -- Carl Jung
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
Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. -- Susan Sontag
I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that. -- Drake
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. -- Susan Sontag
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated. -- Tom Peters
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 about it. -- Joe Orton
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
Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify. -- Stan Smith
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. -- Jerry Saltz
Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick. -- Tamora Pierce
You're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had. -- Tatiana Maslany
Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly. -- Christopher Pike
I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. -- Valentino Garavani
When in comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion. -- George Carlin
You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going. -- Dorian Corey
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 it. -- Ozwald Boateng
My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity. -- David Hurn

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