Overestimated Quotes

#1. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.

Gwenn Wright

#2. So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

Robert Breault

#3. Do you suppose it all means something?
That we're being left clues?
Perhaps.
Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.

Colin Cotterill

#4. Has the kingdom of God been overadvertised, or is it only that it has been underbelieved; has the Lord Jesus Christ been overestimated, or has He only been undertrusted?

Hannah Whitall Smith

#5. A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

Francis Collins

#6. It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice what he wouldn't otherwise see. (The medicinal benefits of disorientation can never be overestimated.)

Bill Buford

#7. Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#8. She thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself

Milan Kundera

#9. The will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.

Tom Robbins

#10. Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

David Baldacci

#11. I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.

Glenda Bailey

#12. Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

Tony Judt

#13. The whore, who said her name was Sandra, offered me delights unobtainable outside of Place Pigalle and Port Said. I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we had both overestimated our apathies, but not by much.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

#15. The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Volkmar Sigusch

#16. If you actually want me to fill in the blanks on this hopelessly boring information, you must be out of your fucking mind, and you clearly overestimated my capacity to give a shit about that sort of thing.

Cardeno C.

#17. I am not to be underestimated. Overestimated, maybe, but underestimated? No.

Saumya Sharman

#18. Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Christina Stead

#19. The soul is often in the surface, and the importance of 'depth' is overestimated.

Italo Calvino

#20. The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Maude Royden

#21. The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Allan Bloom

#22. Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.

Timothy Ferriss

#23. They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.

Blaize Clement

#24. I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

Eliot Engel

#26. Making lots of money
it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback

Martin Amis

#27. Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

Mary Quant

#28. The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H.L. Mencken

#29. Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.

Brian Wansink

#30. Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

Megan Fox

#31. The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Alan Bennett

#32. Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.

Erich Von Manstein

#33. More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Alexander Haig

#34. The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

Cheryl Strayed

#35. It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Jorge Amado

#36. To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

Robert Henri