#modest

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. ↗

— Russell Baker

#age #back #carries #good #had

Modesty is my best quality. ↗

— Jack Benny

#modesty #quality

On their own merits modest men are dumb. ↗

— George Colman

#men #merits #modest #own #their

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit. ↗

— James Dobson

#anatomy #condom #detail #education #especially

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help. ↗

— Mohamed Al-Fayed

#bags #basis #blankets #clothing #comfort

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. ↗

— James W. Black

#came #chance #college #establish #foundation

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 come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#college #come #i #law #law school

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#last #modest #people #privacy #refuge