#modes

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#early #equipment #i #later #made

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#great #great talent #honesty #hypocrisy #limited

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#any #applies #back #destined #great

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#character #fiction #go #i #jackie

Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#modesty #young-love #love

You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #modesty #humor

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#game #luxury #modesty #vulgarity #love

Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an example of Christ-centeredness? Or have I just gotten comfortable in the "Christian routine" and forgotten why I've chosen to live this way? ↗

— Hannah Farver

#influence #modesty #love

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#cell #chained #every #his #however

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference. ↗

— Wendy Shalit

#respect #sexual-difference #men