In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money.… — Patrick Michaels Copy Share Image
I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that’s who I am, — Bristol Palin Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a… — Evelyn Keyes Copy Share Image
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest… — Mohamed Al-Fayed Copy Share Image
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a… — Charles Seymour Robinson Copy Share Image
Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. — John Galt Copy Share Image
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
