Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance. Votes: 3
I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect. Votes: 1
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. Votes: 1
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. Votes: 1
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. Votes: 1
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. Votes: 1
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. Votes: 1
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated. Votes: 1
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas. Votes: 1
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them. Votes: 1
When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated. Votes: 1
I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom. Votes: 1
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration. Votes: 1
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq. Votes: 1
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me. Votes: 1
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write. Votes: 1
Costs and liabilities are rarely overstated. Votes: 0
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. Votes: 0
The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. Votes: 0
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated Votes: 0
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. Votes: 0
China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated. Votes: 0
What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal! Votes: 0
The cost of redemption cannot be overstated. The wonders of grace cannot be overemphasized. Christ took the hell He didn't deserve so we could have the heaven we don't deserve. Votes: 0
Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated - it matters...that people matter.
I am never a stranger anywhere I go, and it gives me the opportunity to choose my habitat by literally throwing a dart at a globe. The freedom that permits one to feel welcome where ever the hang their hat cannot be overstated.
I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq
I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.
CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.