Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry. — Craig Venter Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
“It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others. — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of… — Wendell Berry 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
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler.… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
