Overstated Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health…
— Amy Ridenour
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I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and…
— Eero Saarinen
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war…
— Carl Levin
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You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
— Grace Napolitano
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The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
— Maurice Hinchey
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The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
— William F. Nolan
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Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.
— Molly O'Neill
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Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated
— George Gascon
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The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens…
— Sonia Choquette
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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
— Isaiah Berlin
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I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.
— John Malkovich
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That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written…
— Justin Cronin
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The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
— Tony Judt
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It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
— Bill Nighy
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The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater…
— Steven Pinker
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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
— Jim Rohn
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The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.
— John Wooden
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But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the…
— Randy Pausch
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Who Wrote These Overstated Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Overstated Quotes as follows: