Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years! — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
They were the reason that he kept faith with his stars, that reinforced him in his belief that the universe had more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step. — James Keller Copy Share Image
May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can… — Julius Shulman Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
...it is fairly well agreed that the surface temperature will rise about 1°C as a modest response to a doubling of atmospheric… — John Christy Copy Share Image
The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector. — David Lereah Copy Share Image
I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as bullets at Wal-Mart. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
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