Overstated Quotes

24 Overstated quotes by 23 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. — Grace Napolitano
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. — Maurice Hinchey
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — Unknown Author
Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance. — Molly O'Neill
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated — George Gascon
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
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. — Isaiah Berlin
I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. — John Malkovich
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
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them. — Tony Judt
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
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
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. — Jim Rohn
The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. — John Wooden
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
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. — Yotam Ottolenghi
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated. — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8;… — Christine Pelosi
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy… — Orrin Hatch

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