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  • Conceit spoils the finest genius.

    Life   Conceited   Genius  
    1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.
  • The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

    Girl   Veils   Modesty  
  • I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.

    "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.
  • Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to have to make even bigger cuts if we're going to allow the developing world to have their share of growing industrial prosperity...The Kyoto Protocol is only the first rather modest step. Much, much deeper emission reductions will be needed in future. The political implications are mind-blowing.

  • Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309
  • It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

    Nature   Real   Animal  
  • The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

    Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.115, Routledge
  • From what my friends tell me, apparently some guys can be pretty intimidated by me when they find out what I do. I find it funny because I try to be modest and I don't like to talk about gymnastics unless I am asked about it. But my roommates always take on my bragging rights and tell my life story to the guys we meet, which leaves me blushing.

    Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
  • I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.

  • I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

    Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 10, 2003.
  • I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

  • It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

    Home   Italian   Kitchen  
  • While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan faith in particular- right here in Europe they lose millions and millions of inward adherents who either are alien to all religious life or simply go their own ways. The consequences, particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable.

    Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous, in the handling of prepositions, those modest little connectives that hold the parts of a phrase or a sentence together. They are the joints of any language, what make it, literally, articulate.

    Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt
  • Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.

    Sweet   Inspiration   Eye  
    William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice: The Applause Shakespeare Library”, p.152, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

    Passion   Eye   Blood  
    William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.431
  • We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

  • He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

    Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.148
  • Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

    Character   Fame   Modest  
  • It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest use of its riches, safeguarding the future of the generations to come, restraint and as high a degree of self-provisioning as possible - can reanimate ancient and still unrealized dreams of a secure sustenence for all.

    Dream   Self   Degrees  
  • I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.

  • I'm much too modest a person.

    Modest   Persons  
    Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
  • In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams . . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.

    Dream   Hero   Bars  
  • The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

  • Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.

  • I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

    Goal   Modest   Industry  
  • Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

  • I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

    Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

  • I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

    "The Heartbreak Hotties". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 3, 2007.
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