Oversimplify Quotes

#1. Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

Gerard K. O'Neill

#2. Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Donny Osmond

#3. Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

Martin Schulz

#4. The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ellen Goodman

#6. Grossly to oversimplify the contributions made by the three leading members of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War, if Britain had provided the time and Russia the blood necessary to defeat the Axis, it was America that produced the weapons.

Andrew Roberts

#7. When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

I. J. Good

#8. Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Gabriel Byrne

#9. Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

Derek Webb

#10. You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#11. We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.

Desmond Tutu

#12. I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

David Biespiel

#13. Please don't. Don't oversimplify everything you've been through like that. You had to feel those awful feelings. You had to face them down
confront your bitterness and pessimism
and decide that you didn't want to be that way anymore.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. I don't have time. I make it.

Shu Yi

#15. She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!"
"Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!

Mildred D. Taylor

#16. Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Mitch Albom

#17. Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Helen Keller

#18. When people are overwhelmed, they can't see past their own campfire.

Penny Reid

#19. When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#20. Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.

Philip Yancey