Understating Quotes

#1. A bourbon a day keeps the doctor away. Actually, that might be understating it: whiskey can save your life. And it might be healthier to drink three a day than one a day. No, really.

Jeff Wilser

#2. Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

Mike Myers

#3. The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

Preet Bharara

#4. I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.

Claude Monet

#5. Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I AM NOT UNDERSTATING THAT.

Michele Bachmann

#6. If I need to apologize for misrepresenting God's love I'd rather apologize for overstating His love than for understating it.

Steve McVey

#7. I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.

Justin Verlander

#8. Do you remember when you were young and gorgeous? Clark wanted to ask. Do you remember when everything seemed limitless?

Emily St. John Mandel

#9. Facts do not give advice.

Mason Cooley

#10. This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. There is one person I can think of better than me. And that's Zach Braff. What a cool guy.

Zach Braff

#12. Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom

Benny Bellamacina

#13. The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

Victoria Justice

#15. Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Ho Chi Minh

#16. When I say "an energy miracle," I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons.

Bill Gates