#modes

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#assigns #because #enough #feel #few

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complete #delivers #friends #hands #i

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#alaska #ballot #cast #conceivably #could

It well becomes a young man to be modest. ↗

— Plautus

#man #modest #well #young #young man

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #color #covered #explicit #heart

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#body #colour #covered #explicit #heart

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

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

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