What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus… — Florenz Ziegfeld Copy Share Image
To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without… — Charles Gavan Duffy Copy Share Image
Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important. — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
