Underplayed Quotes & Sayings

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be. — George Weah

The more you put into living,
the more you get out of life! — Patrick Holliday

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point. — Jon Meacham

Most of us die with our music underplayed ... We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of. — Mary Kay Ash

The Law works in the
most mysterious of ways. — Robin S. Sharma

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage. — Bill Hader

In our house, reading was the primary group activity. On Saturday afternoons we curled up with our books in the den. It was the best of both worlds: you had the animal warmth of your family right next to you, but you also got to roam around the adventure-land inside your own head. — Susan Cain

Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on "Potato Hole" ... Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.'s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers' multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth. — Jon Pareles

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. — Mary McCarthy

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents. — A.S. Byatt

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. — Michael Douglas

Lo meets my gaze again. "You're not living when you're not climbing, big brother. None of us are going to keep you on this shitty fucking ground. — Krista Ritchie

Right is right only when entire. — Victor Hugo

That would be getting up at 5 am ... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end. — Terry Zwigoff

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all. — Chris Moneymaker

In this case, Jane and Maura don't always agree on how to go about solving something. They both are very different in their approach and, a lot of times, that can lead to potential conflict, and then a debate in figuring out who and what is the right way to do it. — Sasha Alexander

You can tell the archaeologists, of course, by their photos. The tourists' photos feature people in front of mountains, terraces, stone structures, sundials. The archaeologists wait until the people move away to take theirs: they want the terrace, the stone wall, the lintel, the human-made thing, all sans humans. — Marilyn Johnson

The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about. — David Levering Lewis

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father ... it got more interesting. — David Duchovny