I have had some amazing experiences as a musician - even with my modest skills. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
A good journalist is modest; his only job is simple: to decide what counts as news. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide.… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap,… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. — J. H. Plumb Copy Share Image
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your… — W. Patterson Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases is considerably lower than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims - so much lower, in… — Kenneth P. Green Copy Share Image
I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support… — Dominique Strauss-Kahn Copy Share Image
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
