Quotes About Exaggerate

It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.

I have my faults, just like everyone else, I know that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.

Not that stringencies upon the Press please me — no, nor arrests and imprisonments. I like these things, God knows, as little as the loudest curser of you all, but I don't think it necessary and lawful to exaggerate and over-colour, nor to paint the cheeks of sorrows into horrors

You think I exaggerate." "At the moment—" "Well, this sort of moment never really stops . . .

My dear Watson, said [Sherlock Holmes], I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

I know from my days working on education reform in government that it's almost impossible to exaggerate how little those who work on education policy think about 'how to improve learning.'

There is a regrettable human tendency to exaggerate stability, to believe in equilibrium. ...........It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays same forever.

Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

I do not exaggerate; key votes have been lost because members whose votes were being counted on were in the gym).

Together they breathed deeply, like people who exaggerate their soul because they have no other riches.' May Sarton, quoting Jean Dominique

I wasn't in any danger," Henry said quickly. "Dunford likes to exaggerate." "He does?" Alex asked, raising his brows. "He was very anxious," she told him, then turned to Emma as if she had to explain. "He gets very anxious." "Anxious?" Emma echoed. "Dunford?" Alex asked at the very same time. "You must be joking," Emma added, in a tone that suggested there could be no other possible alternative.

Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing.

Big sisters exaggerate.

Sir Thomas More came up with absurdity, acceptance, exact, explain, and exaggerate.

Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do...How vigilant we are! determined not live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or

I would not trust too much to Watson's accounts of me,' said Holmes, 'he's liable to exaggerate.' He fired one shot.

aggravate, annoy: If you mean pester or irritate, you want annoy. Aggravate means exaggerate or make worse. Steven was annoyed when his boss aggravated the situation by talking to the press.

Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

The downside is that stereotypes flatten out differences within the category we are looking at and exaggerate differences between categories.

dead by all the relatives. You are supposed to be head of the family – stop him writing it.' 'You do exaggerate, Larry dear,' said Mother. 'Anyway

But everyone, including ethnic minorities, should be worried about how anti-racism is becoming weaponized across the political spectrum - how a lot of people in politics think it's a good idea to exaggerate the problem of racism.