Overrates Quotes & Sayings

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts. — Italo Calvino

Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win. — Emanuel Lasker

The physical body can crave sleep with an animal greed, as everybody knows. Then it is snappish when it is disturbed, as I would have been if I hadn't had the memory, at least, of praying for tranquillity. — Marilynne Robinson

Eating the business of eating inside of you space too space and time confused Stomach saying noon brain saying eat oclock — William Faulkner

Got down behind him and probed between his cheeks with one finger. I was surprised to find he'd already applied some slick stuff. Nothing says I love you like a pre-lubricated butthole. Looks like you're — Anonymous

When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long after they're dead. It's a cheering thought. - from The Guide for the Newly Undead. — Molly Harper

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? — Marc Webb

Children frighten me. I mean, I appreciate them on a cute aesthetic level, but they're very demanding and unreasonable creatures and often smell funny. — Rachel Cohn

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. — Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art. — Jeanette Winterson

Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything's fine. And it is - until the taste runs out. Then she'll just spit him out the car window of her life and never look back. — Robert Burton Robinson

I'm not worried about her coming between us," I told him truthfully. "I'm worried about her hurting you and Jesse. Hurting the pack. But that's better than letting her face whatever it is on her own. — Patricia Briggs

the actuality of thought is life — Aristotle.

If ever you find yourself in a situation where man cant help you, call on God. — Hugh B. Brown

A brick could be used to decorate the interior of your anus. Here, bend over and let me demonstrate. — Jarod Kintz

Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory. — Conn Iggulden

I choose my love for Lucinda," he called to Heaven and Earth, to the angels all around him and the ones who weren't there. To the soul of the one true thing he loved the most, wherever she was. "I now reaffirm my choice: I choose Lucinda over everything. And I will until the end."
-Daniel Grigori, Passion — Lauren Kate