Oversold Quotes

#1. The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

Craig Detweiler

#2. The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to strap everything down to get purchase. It's more like mutual bondage.

Ian McDonald

#3. I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours

Paulo Coelho

#4. Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

Aaron Sorkin

#6. I think we've been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

Greg McKeown

#7. The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

Benjamin Graham

#8. I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.

Edward Rutledge

#9. Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind,

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.

Alex Tabarrok

#11. Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Mario Cuomo

#12. I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Henry Rollins

#13. Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?"
"It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words ...

Cassandra Clare

#14. The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Nancy Roman

#16. The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi

Eric Weiner

#17. Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky