Unassumingness Quotes & Sayings

Impossible. It was as if she had been buried in sand from the neck down. — David Walliams

This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It's as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered. — Margaret Atwood

It is also worth noting that it was only through my urgent instigation that he printed a short poem of his own. This was in accordance with his essential unassumingness. Though not clearly conscious of it at the time, I now realize that in a young man of twnty-four his selflessness was extraordinary. The clue to his poetic genius was sympathy, not only in his detached outlook upon humanity but in all his actions and responses towards individuals. I can remember nothing in my observations of his character which showed any sign of egotism or desire for self-advancement. When contrasting the two of us, I find that - highly strung and emotional though he was - his whole personality was far more compact and coherent than mine. He readily recognized and appreciated this contrast, and I remember with affection his amused acceptance of my exclamatory enthusiasms and intolerances. Most unfairly to himself, he even likened us to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza! — Siegfried Sassoon

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much. — Henry George

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow. — Rob Schneider

I love it when a plan comes together!
- Hannibal Smith, A-Team — Stephen J. Cannell

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now. — Clarence Thomas

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything. — Robert Breault

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me. — Lisa Randall

While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another. — Lurlene McDaniel

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition. — Karen Essex

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living. — Wayne Dyer

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. — Bernhard Riemann