Modestia Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

It's easy to fall in love online with someone you'd slide away from on a bus stop bench. A little too damn easy. — Michael Makai

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail. — Hack Wilson

My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways. — Rick Smolan

If we lose faith and trust, then we've lost everything — James Ponti

Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief. — George Orwell

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman, she uses it for luring. And why for luring? She waves it and she nods and winks and lures young men to come and be killed, then she sends famine and plague. That's what it is. And you went and believed her. You thought it was a flag. You thought it was: Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world. — Boris Pasternak

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! — William Shakespeare

Some people would much prefer the infinite regress of mysteries, apparently, but in this day and age the cost is prohibitive: you have to get yourself deceived. You can either deceive yourself or let others do the dirty work, but there is no intellectually defensible way of rebuilding the mighty barriers to comprehension that Darwin smashed. (p.25) — Daniel C. Dennett

Know thyself and all will be revealed. — Pamela Theresa Loertscher