Modest Quotes - Page 14

• I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Never Forget, Grew Up, Forget

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• 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.

  William A. Dembski

  Religious, Philosophical, Intelligent

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• I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Kids, Simple

  "Who Is Richard Gephardt?", abcnews.go.com.

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• I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

  Jennifer Egan

  Book, Squad, Usual

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• I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

  Colin Farrell

  Home, Guy, Painting

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• I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Running, Disease, Hiv

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• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Clothes, Chinese, Flesh

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

  Dan Millman

  Success, Sports, Journey

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• The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

  David Lereah

  Home, Affirmation, Pending

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• I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Humble, Modesty, Virtue

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 4, sc. 5, 1951.

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• Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Appreciation, Men, Genius

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

  George Gershwin

  Mother, Extraordinary Things, Gershwin

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• I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter Bergen

  Thoughtful, People, Kind

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• If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

  Philip Johnson

  Arrogant, Architect, Knows

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

  David Heyman

  Unique, Men, Boys

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• Modest humility is beauty's crown.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Humility, Crowns

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• A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

  Abu Bakr

  Islamic, Character, Men

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• A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Gay, Light

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• It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

  Jules Renard

  Modesty, Easy, Difficult

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• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Tents

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

  May Sarton

  Patience, Art, Patient

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

  Mary Oliver

  Humility, Mind, Glare

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.214, Penguin

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• Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Spirit, Standards

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.65

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• All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

  James Agate

  Reading, Writing, Missing

  James Agate (1942). “Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate”

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• The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Acceptance, Feelings, Sometimes

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