#moderately

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 that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#beings #children #decent #hope #human

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. ↗

— E. B. White

#beyond #bury #child #deep #happy

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#anything #base #flexible #gained #generous

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. ↗

— John le Carre

#because #been #books #decisions #else

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

#city #course #four #golf #golf course

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? ↗

— Princess Diana

#better #compromise #happy #how #just

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christianity #false #importance #important #infinite

For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#being #best #full #getting #into

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#good #moderately #moderation #ought #principle

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 and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#aware #basically #build #china #country