I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It would be nice if at least 1/3 of the people in Korea think that I'm modest. — Seungri Copy Share Image
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock,… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions,… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our… — James Atlas Copy Share Image
The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
We lived in a very modest house. My father drove modest cars, we didn't travel, we didn't do any of the things… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never… — John Stott Copy Share Image
To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first. Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind.… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more… — Brett Favre Copy Share Image
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
