For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
“This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas',… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about… — Gene Autry Copy Share Image
“Now, I know some women have issues with their bodies. Maybe you've got a little extra junk in the trunk? Get over… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you compare the relatively modest tax that will ensue from prohibiting companies from receiving a subsidy and deducting that subsidy, the… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin,… — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against… — Chang-Rae Lee 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
We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas… — Jonathan Nolan 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
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
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
