Quotes About Modest

so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

Everyone found Grant modest and retiring, an altogether likable fellow. "His only dissipation was in owning a fast horse," said a regimental colleague. "He always liked to have a fine nag, and he paid high prices to get one."Grant enjoyed playing chess and checkers, attending parties with Julia, and worshipping with her at the Methodist church.

so stingy with compliments

Unobtrusive. In no one's way.

Today we know that gas as carbon dioxide. Priestley had inadvertently invented a way to create carbonated beverages, but alas, since he was a man of modest means, he didn't commercialize his invention. That was done a few years later by one Johann Jacob Schweppe, whose soda company is still in business today.

Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

And having a servant was not a sign of wealth or privilege—even a modest establishment would have a maid, as this was an important way of providing employment that would otherwise not exist.

In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

Simple is good.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Anyway, I am a private person. You will never hear me talk about or promote my family.

I'm really not that fierce.

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

I'm not a huge dresser-upper. Most of my closet is jeans, T-shirts, tennis shoes, and flats. I don't even know if I have a sequin gown in my closet.

I'm terribly, horribly shy.

This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty

Learn to know and value the praise which is worth having, and to excite the admiration of excellent people by being modest as well as pretty, Meg.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.