Overmodest Quotes

#1. It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Jean Rostand

#2. Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

Francisco Costa

#4. In darkness, remember that the sun never forgets to rise with her morning smile.

Debasish Mridha

#5. He slips ... but manages to regroup himself.

Dan Maskell

#6. French fries are like Crocs. You know you shouldn't, but your life is pretty much over anyway.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Rudyard Kipling

#8. Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

Nell Carter

#9. This ought to have given him a whole storetank of existential rage, but somehow it didn't;

Julian Barnes

#10. The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host.

William S. Burroughs

#11. I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.

Rick Springfield

#12. I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

Jodi Picoult

#13. I don't buy idea of second chance.
With hope we make a lot of chances.

Toba Beta

#14. When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.

Arthur Koestler

#15. When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive.

Sherry Turkle