Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure. — K. J. Yesudas Copy Share Image
The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy.… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person — Horace Copy Share Image
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
You are a sick, sick man,” I told him. “Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
With technological advances, there's a very natural curve between cost and complexity and adoption. When the cost and complexity are high, the… — Lisa Su Copy Share Image
Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
