Understate Quotes

#1. I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

Robert Henri

#2. To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

Dick Cavett

#3. Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Robert D. Putnam

#4. I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

Louise Jameson

#5. I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

Hillary Clinton

#6. The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

Patrick Macnee

#7. To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

Elaine Scarry

#8. One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

Eric Holder

#9. Understate and over-prove.

Frank Bettger

#10. Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it.

Atul Gawande

#11. Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

Darren Rowse

#12. Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Plato

#13. Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

Lil Boosie

#14. Your Majesty," he greeted. His respectful expression turned sour as he addressed Iko, "Madame Counselor." Iko's eyes went coppery with pride at her new title, even though she met the guard with a sour glare of her own.

Marissa Meyer

#15. You're not related to the Three Stooges are you? 'Cause I could swear this escape scene is one of theirs." ~ Jim

Katie MacAlister

#16. If you could see the competition across the room, you'd tuck tail and run.

Juliette Cross

#17. The decade is over, time to begin forgiving
old sins. Thirteen years since your death
on a Florida interstate - and again
a dream of an old wrong.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

#18. To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Robert Brault

#19. What then? We are not alarmed because Satan hindereth us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord's side, and are doing the Lord's work, and in

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. I love stepping onto the ice knowing I can create whatever I want or am feeling that day. It inspires me to be creative and artistic. It's a great therapeutic outlet to utilize both my heart and body at the same time.

Tara Lipinski

#21. I'm willing to make sense as soon as the rest of the world does.

Mark Vonnegut

#22. The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Aldo Leopold

#23. You'd then drive your vehicle to a tree, beneath which the examiner sat. He or she would ask you to park. If you managed to do so without knocking over the tree or hitting the examiner, you had a license.

Colin Cotterill