Undersold Quotes

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

Greg McKeown

#2. I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.

Dani Shapiro

#3. I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

Al Yankovic

#4. For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself

Thomas Hobbes

#5. First let me take a piece of chalk and draw a circle round you, so you're safe. There. Now I'll stand guard, keeping a weather eye open for anything threatening, and we can catch up with each other while we wait.

Helen Simpson

#6. DON'T BE A DISASTER AFTER THE DISASTER

Robert Winter

#7. -You have what they call the complete package, Adders.
-What do you know about my package?
-No that package, you idiot! You are the complete package! I wasn't talking about what's in your trousers!

Lisa J. Hobman

#8. It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#9. I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you.

Angela Johnson

#10. Oh, doctor. I think I'm sick I need some penis-cilin. I fake cough again into my hand.

S.K. Logsdon

#11. I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#12. The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

Mike Cloud

#13. Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

Luc De Clapiers

#14. Dreams should make you think, 'If I had the guts to do it and I didn't care what anybody thought, this I what I'd really do'.

Cecelia Ahern

#15. When the lightning struck, the whole prairie would be bathed for a second in white light.

Larry McMurtry