Underestimated Quotes - Page 5

• The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history.

  Bob Crow

  War, Years, Achievement

  "Durham Miners' Gala: Bob Crow dismisses Labour as "history" in explosive speech" by Karen Rockett, www.mirror.co.uk. July 13, 2013.

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• Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

  Conrad Black

  Greed, Opinion, Has Beens

  "The World According to Conrad Black". www.thestar.com. March 11, 2007.

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• [In response to the question "Do you think that you underestimated the insurgency's strength?"] I think so. I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Violence, Looks

  Dick Cheney's Remarks at the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon Followed by Q&A, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 19, 2006.

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• I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Age, Cry

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 15, 1985.

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• I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Thinking, Use

  The vice presidential debate between Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards, www.washingtonpost.com. October 5, 2004.

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• An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.

  Robert Pinsky

  Couple, Reading, Mean

  "The Pause: An Underestimated Element in Poetry". poemsoutloud.net. April 14, 2009.

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• Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Opportunity, Awards, People

  Serzh Sargsyan's address to the Conference dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's Arbitral Award, November 23, 2010.

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• I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.

  Nina Turner

  Thinking, Class, America

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

  Jan Struther

  Democracy, Ordinary, Citizens

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Healing, Doors, Perfect

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• Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Adventure, Magic

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

  Tobsha Learner

  Distance, Long, Novelists

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". The Australian Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.

  Ian Sansom

  Book, Fall, Journey

  "Falling Out of Time by David Grossman - review" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Shapes, Narrative

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• Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Knowing, Adverse Effects, Hatred

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• Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Believe, Compassion, Lasts

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• I think Frank Mir was 100 percent underestimated and I'm really happy to see the result because I think we needed it in the heavyweight division.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Thinking, Heavyweights, Division

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• The Republicans underestimated and underestimated and underestimated Donald Trump. And look where that got them. They kept saying, no, no, no, that's not going to happen, we don't have to worry about that.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Worry, Saying No, Looks

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• As for the eastern part of the former Soviet Union, the picture is rather uniform. Authoritarian structures prevail to differing extents. But we can still determine certain regularities, and the role of Russia is not to be underestimated. It is clear that we would have the same situation in Tajikistan and, let's say, Uzbekistan without the direct influence of Russia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Uzbekistan, Roles

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.

  Ahmed Rashid

  People, Support, Population

  Source: progressive.org

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• As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the word deflation ... what they think of it is, "Hard to hold my margin. I'm under margin pressure. I'm under sales pressure. I'm under cost pressure."

  Ken Moelis

  Thinking, Cost, Pressure

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• My whole life has been completely about being underestimated. I remember when Blink signed to a major label, and we had a debut party for the signing. No one came to party, only the guy that signed us. And I remember sitting there, like, "S**t, no one likes this."

  Tom DeLonge

  Party, Guy, Labels

  "The Guy From Blink-182 Has One Helluva Story About Aliens". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. March 21, 2017.

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• The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Weak Man, Stubborn

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Doors

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• We've all been underestimated at times. That's life.

  Abby Huntsman

  Source: www.elle.com

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