Overstated Quotes

#1. The importance of unimportant things cannot be overstated.

Marty Rubin

#2. The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

Tony Judt

#3. My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

Michel Faber

#4. To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities.

Richard Rohr

#5. When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

Christine Pelosi

#6. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

John Wooden

#7. China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated.

Jeremy Gordon

#8. My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

#9. Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Isaiah Berlin

#10. It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

Bill Nighy

#11. I am never a stranger anywhere I go, and it gives me the opportunity to choose my habitat by literally throwing a dart at a globe. The freedom that permits one to feel welcome where ever the hang their hat cannot be overstated.

Dean Haglund

#12. Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

Carl Levin

#13. Nix to Regin: What about that nice leopard-shifter pack that wanted to date you? The benefits of a variety pack of males cannot be overstated.

Kresley Cole

#14. The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

Maurice Hinchey

#15. Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Jim Rohn

#16. The importance of the Caja Laboral cannot be overstated. It started as a credit union but grew into something much bigger and more extensive - as have the Netherlands' Rabobank and France's Credit Agricole, both having started as savings co-ops for farmers.

Chris Beales

#17. Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world, the importance of developing the life skill of solitude, meditation, and quietly being with oneself can not be overstated.

Joshua Becker

#18. What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!

L. Tom Perry

#19. That whole thing has been overstated by environmentalists. First of all, what is it, rocks and snow? C'mon, what is that, you want that? Go to Canada my friend. Believe me, rocks and snow are overrated. I've seen otters - they look better covered in oil.

Jon Stewart

#20. The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#21. But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

Randy Pausch

#22. The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

William F. Nolan

#23. The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve.

Randy Alcorn

#24. I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

Mark Shields

#25. The physical relief of having fully drained boobs cannot be overstated.

Cassi Clark

#26. Costs and liabilities are rarely overstated.

Seth Klarman

#27. I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

Eero Saarinen

#28. The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Steven Pinker

#29. It has been said that civilization is the process of freeing human beings from each other, and that is true. But it takes people to free each other, because people cannot be freed from each other except by each other. The irony of this cannot be overstated.

Robert Peate

#30. Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

Grace Napolitano

#31. Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated

George Gascon

#32. What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.

Michael E. Gorman

#33. CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.

Amy Ridenour

#34. Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

Alan Lightman

#35. I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

John Malkovich

#36. Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated - it matters ... that people matter.

Steve Goodier

#37. So Pabrai added the following checkpoint to his list: when analysing a company, stop and confirm that you've asked yourself whether the revenues might be overstated or understated due to boom or bust conditions.

Atul Gawande

#38. I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Erwin McManus

#39. Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

Molly O'Neill