{"quotes":[{"text":"These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","arguing","argumentation","belief","bickering","christian","christianity","conflict","criticism","debating","denominations","disagreement","exaggeration","gospel","hypocrisy","judgment","legalism","lukewarm","opposition","passion","prosperity","religion","spirituality"],"id":19153,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["applause","comedian","comedy","exaggeration","gag","humor","humorous","humour","lovesick","madness","michael-bassey-johnson","praise"],"id":53900,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone","broken","drama","emotions","exaggerate","exaggeration","fall","fallen","feel","feelings","grief","grieve","injured-heart","life","lonely","lost","love","pain","painful","poems","poetry","sad","sadness","sorrow","sorry","stories","story","write","writers"],"id":71951,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["exaggerate","exaggeration","fear","fearing","give","grant","permission","permit","possess","power","powerful","project","projection"],"id":80782,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.","author":"Stephen L. Carter","tags":["emotion","exaggeration","perspective"],"id":84062,"author_id":"Stephen+L.+Carter"},{"text":"Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["architecture","art","dance","exaggeration","film"],"id":102865,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.","author":"Marisha Pessl","tags":["exaggeration","honesty","lie","lies","lying","stories","truth"],"id":130965,"author_id":"Marisha+Pessl"},{"text":"The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["attention","awareness","brain","cognition","compassion","dopamine","emotions","empathy","exaggeration","external","extroversion","extrovert","feelings","internal","introversion","introvert","personality","pity","private","psychology","public","senses","sensitivity","social","sympathy","traits"],"id":133181,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["child","exaggeration","melodrama","melodramatic","truth"],"id":143170,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["exaggeration","importance","language","words"],"id":152807,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}