Overemphasise Quotes & Sayings

In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after this destruction, with all the stuff that we're dealing with now - a dirty war, the disappeared, the concept of terrorism. Anyway, 9/11 happened some years into the process, and I was like, OK, I don't have a novel. — Junot Diaz

When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values. — Sunday Adelaja

And when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them "Will you take my heart
stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question and you say, "I will," too. — Douglas Coupland

It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being. — Elton John

The red velvet material was hard to work with, it pulled, and the style my mother had chosen was not easy either. She was not really a good sewer. She liked to make things; that is different. Whenever she could she tried to skip basting and pressing and she took no pride in the fine points of tailoring, the finishing of buttonholes and the overcasting of seams as, for instance, my aunt and my grandmother did. — Alice Munro

I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on our hard drive, our series within our brains, [exist] still photographs of very important moments in our lives ... That we think in terms of still images and that what the photography is doing is making direct contact with the human hard drive and recording for all time a sense of what happened. — Jon Snow

The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations. — Anthony Albanese

Everyone deserves one grand adventure, that one time in life that we always get to point back to and say, Then ... then I was really living. — Cora Carmack

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser. — Les Brown

We overemphasise miracles when we are supposed to be planning and be thinking forward. — Sunday Adelaja

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In response, Kai looked like he wanted to laugh. She glared at him. — Marissa Meyer

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again. — William Penn

When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach. — Sunday Adelaja

O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press — Nelson Mandela

When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit. — Sunday Adelaja

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary. — Lydia M. Child

When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing. — Sunday Adelaja

We overemphasise supernatural powers when we are supposed to be doing reevaluation of ourselves. — Sunday Adelaja