What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas. Votes: 3
The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. Votes: 2
The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. Votes: 2
Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. Votes: 2
Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking. Votes: 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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we? Votes: 2
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board... Votes: 2
'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement. Votes: 1
It is not an overstatement to say that Obamacare was the single most important catalyst leading to the tea party movement. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
"Simpler is always better" is an overstatement. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0