Overmodest Crossword Quotes & Sayings

So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes. Us, or anyone else. Because we're not comparing it with anything.
And anyway, we're all dead, or never born, and the whole thing really is a dream.
There, you see. That's a funny side. — Hugh Laurie

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. — Ambrose Bierce

And I know things have to change. Over time, everything changes. — Sarah Felix Burns

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. — Ernie Harwell

My husband is not a jealous person in any way. — Kate Winslet

Nothing but real love
(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom
the cares and fears of poverty
the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off. — Grace Jones

In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow. — John Walford

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place. — Emily Procter

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. — Joe Orton

Nobody," he said, "has put in a good day's fishing unless he leaves a couple of flies hanging on the bushes. You can't catch fish if you don't dare go where they are." "Let — Norman Maclean

Good-byes are sad, but they don't have to be. We always knew we'd be moving on, we just never understood what it took to do it, and what we got to take from the people and places we left. — Alexis Bass

In my story you're the villain. But in my heart, you're still the reigning King. — Coco J. Ginger