Top 100 Underestimated Quotes
#1. Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton says. I didn't think they could make Brooklyn uglier. I underestimated them.
J.R. Moehringer
#2. I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
Alan Bennett
#3. Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.
Starhawk
#5. Maybe my intuition has been warning me about something I don't quite understand but shouldn't be underestimated. ...
Nicholas Sparks
#6. I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.
Amie Kaufman
#7. Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
Kofi Annan
#9. I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.
Hermann Hesse
#10. The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.
Jan Struther
#11. I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
Viggo Mortensen
#12. Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.
Ammar Moussa
#13. I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
Laila Ali
#14. John A. Templer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the definitive (and, it must be said, almost only) scholarly text on the subject, The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design, suggests that all fall-injury figures are probably severely underestimated anyway.
Bill Bryson
#16. Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.
Jeremy Gilley
#17. The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
Salman Rushdie
#18. All children should be loved, protected, nurtured
emotionally and intellectually
respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.
Augusten Burroughs
#19. I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.
Sienna Miller
#20. I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
Nicolas Roeg
#21. Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.
Serzh Sargsyan
#22. Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.
Emmett Tyrrell
#23. Alice Stewart [is] a much underestimated scientist who has been an indomitable challenger of the establishment and a thorn in the flesh of the nuclear industry.
Joseph Rotblat
#24. I thought the whole thing with Blake would ruin this afternoon, but I had underestimated the magnetism of Daemon and his kisses.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#25. Obama had campaigned against Bush's ideas and approaches. But, Donilon, for one, thought that Obama had perhaps underestimated the extent to which he had inherited George W. Bush's presidency - the apparatus, personnel and mind-set of war making.
Bob Woodward
#26. In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.
Gloria Steinem
#27. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.
Brian McGreevy
#30. You have more control than I've given you credit for. I underestimated you, Muse. Yah think?
Pippa DaCosta
#31. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
Frederick Forsyth
#32. My mind is still reeling from a man of the cloth saying 'chicks you have banged'. I think I may have underestimated this Father. He appears to know in the ways of the youth.
Alex Dunkin
#33. I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."
Demetri Martin
#34. [Donald] Trump is underestimated greatly in terms of his understanding and comprehension of the great issues facing America. He understands trade. He's got businesses all over the world. He understands currency and how manipulating currency can be damaging to America.
Jeff Sessions
#35. I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
Lapo Elkann
#36. Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
Julianna Baggott
#37. Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.
Michael J. Fox
#38. But she underestimated me. I played my cards, I laid in wait, I let myself be beaten and manipulated. If she keeps that promise she made to me, I'll show her the truth I've learned on her boat. I don't just raise monsters. I am one.
Emily Skrutskie
#39. As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
Helen Fisher
#40. There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.
Scott Lynch
#41. That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
Rem Koolhaas
#42. The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.
Bob Crow
#43. Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.
Lou Adler
#45. Chains used to claim that there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#46. The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.
Donald Rumsfeld
#47. The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand.
Stella Young
#48. In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.
Roald Dahl
#49. When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.
Jon Krakauer
#50. Could Vader actually be Anakin Skywalker? the two men wondered. Based on Obi-Wan's account of what had occurred on Mustafar, Anakin's survival didn't seem possible. But perhaps Obi-Wan had underestimated Anakin. Perhaps Anakin's peerless strength in the Force had allowed him to survive.
James Luceno
#51. You always underestimated me. You thought you made me harmless when you gave angelhood to me. You forgot that some angels are warriors. Where there's warriors, there's war. I will fight to the death. It's my duty. I am not afraid.
Sonya Hartnett
#52. We had so much to say to each other, like we'd been quiet our whole lives until we met. It was as if I had underestimated how hungry I was for a companion, how much I needed to be understood, to be pursued, to be seen and to be reflected in someone's eyes.
Kimberly Novosel
#53. I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
Dan Wheldon
#54. 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
#55. Across the board at the office there was a belief, an unproved theorem, about Coinman's blind faith in Ratiram; that if one thought Coinman could willingly sip a cup of Botulinum if Ratiram wished so, it still underestimated the reverence that dwelt in Coinman's heart for Ratiram.
Pawan Mishra
#56. One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
William Zinsser
#57. Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Kevyn Aucoin
#58. Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.
Charles Medawar
#59. I squirmed in my hiding spot. Do something, people," I urged. Say something. The silence dragged on. I imagined my first report to Maris. "We have underestimated our enemy. They are lethal. We are in serious danger of the Hancocks boring us to death. Abort, abort, abort.
Anne Greenwood Brown
#60. Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
Marc Andreessen
#61. When I booked 'Orange,' I thought things were going to change a little bit, and I'd be a little more busy, but obviously I underestimated it. I don't think anyone knew that my character would be taken to so well.
Ruby Rose
#62. In the past, mushrooms were maligned as nutritionally poor. Since they are about 80 to 90 percent water when fresh, their net concentrations of nutrients can be underestimated. Like grains, however, mushrooms should be weighed when dry to get their correct nutrient value.
Paul Stamets
#63. I have a tough skin and enough confidence not to worry too much about being underestimated because of my last name, my relative youth, or my modeling background. It comes with the territory.
Ivanka Trump
#64. I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.
Angela Merkel
#66. Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.
Glenn Beck
#67. You should be," she said. "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him." So we went out to the
Gary D. Schmidt
#68. But he had underestimated the strangeness of talking about the future of his life with someone for whom the future still seemed unbounded: a pleasure palace of choices, with infinite doors, in which only a fool would spend his time trapped in one room.
Zadie Smith
#69. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.
Randy Pausch
#70. The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.
Sarah-Patton Boyle
#71. to be underestimated by an enemy is the greatest advantage a man can have.
Megan Whalen Turner
#72. My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost.
Tom Douglas
#73. I think a lot of women are underestimated.
Brooke Burke
#74. I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it.
Cheryl Cole
#75. But that's the thing about Outs. They are so far on the periphery that people underestimate them. And people don't realize that they've underestimated them until it's too late.
Roseanne Cheng
#76. I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they understood or not. That was just the kind of parents they were.
Bill Konigsberg
#77. Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".
Jon Stewart
#78. As accustomed as he was to the ever-expanding muscle of technology, even Jason Archer had to shake his head occasionally over what was really out there. Iris scanners were also used to closely monitor worker productivity. Jason grimaced. Truth be known, Orwell had actually underestimated.
David Baldacci
#79. An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.
Robert Pinsky
#80. In my world travels, I saw a good many varieties of butterflies. They're incredibly delicate creatures, but they shouldn't be underestimated. Observing them as I did, I learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes if you surround a butterfly too closely, it couldn't fly if it wanted to.
Lorraine Heath
#81. I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.
Pete Sampras
#82. The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#83. After singing 'Same Love' across the nation, it's given me faith that I've underestimated the straight world.
Mary Lambert
#84. Pawns were always underestimated - until they marched across the board and changed into queens.
Natalie Herzer
#85. The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.
Andre Michel Lwoff
#86. Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.
David Baldacci
#88. The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.
Tobsha Learner
#89. Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.
Evangeline Lilly
#90. There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
#91. The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
Bill Vaughan
#92. If girls can be anything, let them be anything.
This is a book for any girl who ever felt she didn't fit in. You are not alone. You come from a long line of bold, strong, fearless women. Glory in that.
This is a book for anyone who ever underestimated a girl.
Jason Porath
#93. Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then
Nicholas Stern
#94. Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.
Chaim Weizmann
#95. [In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.
Dick Cheney
#96. Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.
Tatjana Soli
#97. The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget ... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
Lionel Murphy
#98. We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
Heinz Guderian
#99. I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.
Lisa Marie Presley
#100. The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
Bob Schaffer
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