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Quotes About Moderately

Taxis are expensive for moderately employed dwarfs who rent extra apartments, swim at private clubs, and fancy themselves as righteous assassins.
~ Katherine Dunn
Deng reaffirmed as well the correctness of the party's strategic goal of quadrupling the economy between 1980 and 2000 and making China a moderately developed country by the middle of the twenty-first century.
~ Ezra F. Vogel
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
It is not uncommon to hear Arminians describe themselves as "moderately Reformed" in order to ingratiate themselves to the movers and shakers of the evangelical movement.
~ Roger E. Olson
Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of strangeness before it actually totters, but freaked, yes.
~ Stephen King
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.
~ Thomas Hardy
The kind of films I am doing are moderately budgeted and are with A-listers.
~ Rajkummar Rao
It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout.
~ Charles Duhigg
Returned home for dinner and dined alone—the countess had many visitors I do not like. I ate and drank moderately and after dinner copied out some passages for the Brothers. In the evening I went down to the countess and told a funny story
~ Leo Tolstoy
IVY: Is she clean? BARBARA: Clean-ish. IVY: So she's not clean. BARBARA: The woman's got brain-damage, dummy. If you think I'm going to strip-search her every time she slurs a word— IVY: You know the difference. BARBARA: She's moderately clean. IVY: "Moderately"? BARBARA: You don't like "moderately"? Then let's say tolerably. IVY: Is she clean, or not? BARBARA: Back off. We're trying to get by here, okay?
~ Tracy Letts
[A]utumn... is mature, reasonable and serious, it glows moderately and not frivolously....
~ Unknown
Theophilus Hopkins was a moderately famous man. You can look him up in the 1860 Britannica. There are three full columns about his corals and his corallines, his anemones and starfish. It does not have anything very useful about the man. It does not tell you what he was like. You can read it three times over and never guess that he had any particular attitude to Christmas pudding.
~ Peter Carey