#modes

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. ↗

— John Ruskin

#deformity #ever #heart #kind #manners

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

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#called #doubt #modest #wise

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

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#called #carried #constitutional #constitutional rights #contrivance

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

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#affords #any #appointed #as far as #being