Quotes About Overstatement

#1. Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Julia Gillard

#2. It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

Viktor Korchnoi

#3. The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#5. What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

Fred Allen

#6. A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

E.B. White

#7. The term itself - my life - is a desperate overstatement.

Don DeLillo

#8. A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.

Owain Yeoman

#9. Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

Susan Sontag

#10. Verbal description of everything, however, must remain infinitely distant from the thing itself, overstatement and understatement sometimes hitting off the truth better than a flat assertion of bare fact.

Anthony Powell

#11. 'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement.

Jamie Dornan

#12. There's been this attempt to block Donald Trump, in primary candidates and Democrats, that - to try to make everything he says some sort of extreme overstatement.

Jeff Sessions

#13. 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

#14. Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic.

Isaac Asimov

#15. 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 knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#16. Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred percent.

Sten Nadolny

#17. Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

Richard Branson

#19. If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

Dean Smith

#20. Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Rita Dove

#21. His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious.

Richard Mitchell

#22. You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

Christopher Pike

#23. Here lay the gateway between worlds, the divide between reality and fantasy. A dream or, depending on who waited, a nightmare.

Danielle L. Jensen

#24. I wish the Lord would take me now

Livia

#25. Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

Jessica Origliasso

#27. Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with their toes.

Elizabeth Berg

#28. Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order.

Virginia Aird

#29. Now is the time when your action is practice.

Dalai Lama

#30. What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty ... You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

Michele Bachmann

#31. Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

Rick Warren