Diffident Overly Shy Or Modest Quotes & Sayings

Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on. — Thomas Paine

We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully. — Marilyn Ferguson

I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement. — Sally Mann

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they tell me to just get government out of the way and they'll create the jobs and grow on their own. — Diane Black

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth. — Swami Vivekananda

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself. — Hans Selye

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed. — Martha Cooley

The happiest people are the ones with the most community. — Barbara Kingsolver

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One aspect of the human condition that never ceases to amaze me, is the frequecy with which love can turn to hate. But then, a broken heart no longer possesses a penchant for love. — Shane K.P. O'Neill

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. — Bill Cosby

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money. — Guy Spier

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen. — Andy Lau