Moderately Quotes

78 quotes by 73 authors

That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it? — Eddie Izzard
Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs. — Henry Adams
Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. — William Shakespeare
Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the… — Plato
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that… — Elizabeth Kolbert
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep… — Edward Forbes
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would… — Kurt Vonnegut
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit. — George Bernard Shaw
No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to… — William Godwin
I work out sort of moderately. — Lara Stone
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. — Luc de Clapiers
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of… — Jerry Kramer
We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy… — Eric Hoffer
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well. — Dick Pound
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against… — Charles Darwin
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they… — Karl E. Weick
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and… — Charles Babbage
I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city. — Ree Drummond
At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long… — Hu Jintao

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