Quotes for All
Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country’s cyberspace. Evgeny Morozov
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. Evelyn Beatrice Hall
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it ‘right’. Ernst Gombrich
Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved. Ernest Van den Haag
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. Erik Satie
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. Erica Jong
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it. Epictetus
Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I’m not interested. Emmanuel Macron
I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town. Emeril Lagasse
Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with \”usefulness\” and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems. Ellen Willis