#modes

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#endangered #false #false modesty #fidelity #inconsistent

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#extravagant #four #large #living #modestly

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#modesty #pass #praise #these #unselfishness

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

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

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#better #color #differ #drawing #expression

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. ↗

— Ron Paul

#course #end #fed #i #i do

Modesty is the color of virtue. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#modesty #virtue

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#am #busy #cultivate #had #i