#moderately

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ↗

— Truman Capote

#act #badly #good #life is a #moderately

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#keeps #moderately #neither #nor #observes

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#carry #developments #investment #large #long

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