Overstatement Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. — Fred Allen
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by… — Julia Gillard
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...… — Steven Pressfield
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the… — Viktor Korchnoi
Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking. — John F. Carlson
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. — Alfred North Whitehead
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure… — John Ashbery
The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. — Don DeLillo
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was… — Neil Gaiman
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object… — Elwyn Brooks White
It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. — David Limbaugh

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