#modes

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

— Roger Moore

#blessed #good #good looks #i #looks

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

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#been #end #every #faith #gold

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#finds #good #himself #ill #man

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. ↗

— Norah Jones

#even #expect #expectations #first #get

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#awful #buy #cost #going #goodness

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#called #doubt #modest #wise

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. ↗

— William Law

#dress #education #exact #great #humble