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Overstatement Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 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…
- 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…
More Overstatement Quotes
- 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… — Julia Gillard
- Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — 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… — Steven Pressfield
- It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Neil Gaiman
- A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the… — Elwyn Brooks White