I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
You must have the modesty of saying, this is a bloody good idea but I probably won't believe it in five years'… — Stuart Hall 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
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In fact, it seems that most of the Bible's instructions regarding modesty find their context in warnings about materialism, not sexuality . . .” — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
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