All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
G.K. CHESTERTON Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE They ended as all great passions do end-----by a misunderstanding...
HONORE DE BALZAC People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness b...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness b...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.
MARK TWAIN Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE The longer you are in this business, you come to expect it. It's not just the parents who exaggerate...
RODNEY GARNER Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
MARQUIS DE SADE When the passions become masters, they are vices
BLAISE PASCAL Legends exaggerate.
TOBA BETA We've always tried to report the science, to stick with the facts, to report things as they are and ...
JANE DEPRIEST Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity in...
CRISS JAMI They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
ROBERT SOUTHEY You exaggerate your own reactions.
DYLAN MORAN Half of them are suicides or accidents, Martha. Don't exaggerate.
CLINT EASTWOOD I don't want to exaggerate it, so I'll just say massively more.
RALPH NADER The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The passions are the only orators that always persuade.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always weaken everything we exaggerate.
FR餩RIC-C鳡R LA HARPE We always weaken everything we exaggerate.
LA HARPE So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.
DAN HILL Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I never exaggerate. I just remember big.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ I never exaggerate. I just remember big.
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ I don't exaggerate - I just remember big
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.
EPICTETUS Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
EPICTETUS It's important to meet with clients outside of the office setting because they are usually less dist...
JASON MARTIN The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old ag...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Idle brains exaggerate matters; and cynics cause great social damage.
ATHARVA VEDA Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
DAVID SEDARIS There is no one who does not exaggerate!
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, b...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
FLOYD ABRAMS They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to
lawyers.]
UNKNOWN Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring th...
FRANCINE RIVERS They are rid of emotional attachment, their sins are erased, and their association with the five pas...
GURU NANAK Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in...
BUDDHA GOTAMA Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in ...
BUDDHA I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
AESOP It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
AESOP It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters
AESOP Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
ROBERT C. EDWARDS Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
BOB EDWARDS It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
MARK TWAIN The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets...
DENIS DIDEROT We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
DU COEUR We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passion...
RICHARD POWERS Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHAL It is the passions that do and undo everything.
BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
HONORE DE BALZAC There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the ...
EDMUND BURKE We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us...
ADAM BRAUN I do not exaggerate when I say that the Hong Kong ministerial meeting is on a knife-edge,
PETER MANDELSON The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are mere...
YASUO KUWAHARA Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Historically, the market has tended to exaggerate the impact of hurricanes.
JAMES STEEL It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.
WILLIAM OSLER You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are...
ALEXANDER HERZEN How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets...
CAROLL SPINNEY The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their exces...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their exces...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their exces...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE As a matter of fact, great passions remain unknown, they erade in the anonymity.
MIHAIL DRUMEş There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE If you are not going to make the horizon straight, exaggerate the crap out of it!!! It works!
ROCIO VELASQUEZ To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
JOSEPH ADDISON To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
RICHARD STEELE To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude
JOSEPH ADDISON Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of whic...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD "If girls were going after me, I would not only admit it, but I would probably exaggerate about the ...
JOSHUA JACKSON All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
WILLIAM OSLER The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget
WILLIAM OSLER Vices are often habits rather than passions
ANTOINE RIVAROL Vices are often habits rather than passions.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Those do dare take risks, shall fulfill their passions.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions
BENJAMIN DISRAELI REAL people do not
have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-unders...
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