Quotes About Modest

Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest but there's tons of counter space, so you can slap down three or four cutting boards.

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

I'm very private about my private life. I don't like to go into too much depth about it.

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.

I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

I'm the most un-diva-ish person you'll meet. I'm never rude to people and I am always on time.

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life. Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away. Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance. In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

and while there were risks promoting what many considered a utopian quest, I told my team that in some ways that was the point; even modest progress on the issue required a bold and overarching vision.

Just as I had in Illinois, I tried to do what I could to influence policy at the margins, pushing modest, nonpartisan measures—funding to safeguard against a pandemic outbreak

Cuba and Belgium are both countries of modest size, surrounded by large, powerful and often hostile powers.

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.

Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be be labeled as something unusual.

The funeral was modest, a love-her-and-shove-her affair.

What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?

My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions.

Altogether, the American Rhodes Scholars, with their splendid native gift of oratory, and their modest desire to please, and their not less evident feeling that they ought merely to edify, and their constant delight in all that of Oxford their English brethren don't notice, and their constant fear that they are being corrupted, are a noble, rather than a comfortable, element in the social life of the University.

I still want to have the reputation of kind of being a quiet hardworking type of guy.

I come from humble beginnings so I don't require a lot to feel comfortable.

Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating profit every year since 2013.

It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved.