Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years. — Barbara Wagner Copy Share Image
She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely… — Asahel Nettleton Copy Share Image
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity,… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought. — James Goldman Copy Share Image
Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form. — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
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