Hyperbolical Quotes & Sayings

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. — Thornton Wilder

I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them. — Frances Osborne

Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance. — Zora Neale Hurston

The thought came over me: am I to spend all the best part of my life in this wretched bondage, forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness, the apathy and the hyperbolical & most asinine stupidity of those fat-headed oafs, and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience & assiduity? Must I from day to day sit chained to this chair, prisoned with in these four bare walls, while these glorious summer suns are burning in heaven & the year is revolving in its richest glow & declaring at the close of every summer day [that] the time I am losing will never come again? — Claire Harman

I see." I didn't see, though. How do we ever see something about our own self? — Elizabeth Strout

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it. — Jan Koum

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly. — Lisa Bevere

Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down? — Larry Merchant

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. — Virgil

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. — A. N. Wilson

By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about." "This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho; "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I think again about pulling my hands away -- but Snow could light fires in my palms at this point, and I wouldn't pull away. It feels like he has. — Rainbow Rowell

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time. — Chris Hadfield

The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. — Frank Shamrock

We spend far too much of our lives at work to have it be in opposition to the person we desire to be. — Scott Hammerle

impossible; a word which, in common conversation, is often used to signify not only improbable, but often what is really very likely, and, sometimes, what hath certainly happened; an hyperbolical violence like that which is so frequently offered to the words infinite and eternal; by the former of which it is usual to express a distance of half a yard, and by the latter, a duration of five minutes. And thus it is as usual to assert the impossibility of losing what is already actually lost. — Henry Fielding