#modes

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#ever #fortune #make #man #modest

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty. ↗

— Roger Moore

#blessed #good #good looks #i #looks

When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#bathing suit #completely #first #i #i remember

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#insolent #made #modest #others #praise

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#because #children #could #i #long

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy. ↗

— Al Pacino

#because #dancer #dancing #due #i

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. ↗

— Chris Patten

#background #cerebral #cut #even #goes

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#belief #beliefs #different #different beliefs #distinguished

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#directors #films #modest #more #number

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fight #his #life #modes #right