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My dad was 96-years-old. He was in so many ways my role model, he built a remarkable business, one of the leading investment banks in this country over many years. He led a life of dignity, of decency, of modesty that is something I've very much aspired to. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence, these qualities and his long commitment to public service have earned him the respect and admiration from leaders from both sides of the aisle. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I approached this film with hindsight, modesty and knowing that history is the star of the film. – Jean Dujardin	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The way that [ White ] used modesty in the letter as sort of like a call to women to do better was the same argument that I had seen a lot. – Anne Jarrett	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Well, the thing is, can we call anybody a slut ? This is what begs the question. Take this woman out of it, take Rush out of it for a moment, does a woman now have the right to behave -- and I know there's a double standard between the way men chase women and running and running around -- you know, I'm not going to get there, but you know what I'm talking about. But it used to be that women were held to a little bit of a higher standard. We required modesty from women. Now, are we beyond those days where a woman can behave as a slut, but you can't call her a slut ? – Jason Lewis '	Found on CNN 5 years ago
As a private Catholic high school, we adhere to teaching our students moral values which include modesty, we want all students to feel beautiful in what they wear while also adhering to our values as a Catholic school. – Amy Ott	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have a great advantage, and we can say it without false modesty: we are better than they are. – President Nicolas Maduro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I promise that I will go to all of his Masses -- and with satisfaction. I left the meeting this morning impressed, very impressed by his knowledge, his wisdom, modesty, and by all the virtues that we know he has. – Raul Castro	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We want practical solutions. Friends, in places where others gave up, we promised to fight and to win, now is the time to do what is best for all of us. This evening is about recognizing the good. An evening of modesty and good conduct. I am not arrogant, and I certainly won't gloat. – Moshe Kahlon	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It would be very difficult to teach children any sort of modesty and humility if a parent thought it OK to be naked in front of their children. It also would bring up questions and conversations they might not be ready to handle. – Terry Greenwald	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. – Bernard Mandeville	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man. – Bernard Mandeville	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Modesty is the conscience of the body. – Honoré de Balzac	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. – Yves Saint Laurent	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. – Harriet Martineau	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself. – Edith Sitwell	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ornaments were invented by modesty. – Joseph Joubert	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. – Marquis de Sade	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Modesty is attended with profit, arrogance brings on destruction. – Chinese	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. – Addison	added by anonymous 12 years ago
He who is full of faith and modesty, who shrinks from sin, and is full of learning, who is diligent, unremiss, and full of understanding?he, being replete with these seven things, is esteemed a wise man. – Burmese Proverb	added by anonymous 12 years ago
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago

My dad was 96-years-old. He was in so many ways my role model, he built a remarkable business, one of the leading investment banks in this country over many years. He led a life of dignity, of decency, of modesty that is something I've very much aspired to.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence, these qualities and his long commitment to public service have earned him the respect and admiration from leaders from both sides of the aisle.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I approached this film with hindsight, modesty and knowing that history is the star of the film.

– Jean Dujardin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The way that [ White ] used modesty in the letter as sort of like a call to women to do better was the same argument that I had seen a lot.

– Anne Jarrett

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Well, the thing is, can we call anybody a slut ? This is what begs the question. Take this woman out of it, take Rush out of it for a moment, does a woman now have the right to behave -- and I know there's a double standard between the way men chase women and running and running around -- you know, I'm not going to get there, but you know what I'm talking about. But it used to be that women were held to a little bit of a higher standard. We required modesty from women. Now, are we beyond those days where a woman can behave as a slut, but you can't call her a slut ?

– Jason Lewis '

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As a private Catholic high school, we adhere to teaching our students moral values which include modesty, we want all students to feel beautiful in what they wear while also adhering to our values as a Catholic school.

– Amy Ott

Found on CNN
7 years ago

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have a great advantage, and we can say it without false modesty: we are better than they are.

– President Nicolas Maduro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I promise that I will go to all of his Masses -- and with satisfaction. I left the meeting this morning impressed, very impressed by his knowledge, his wisdom, modesty, and by all the virtues that we know he has.

– Raul Castro

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We want practical solutions. Friends, in places where others gave up, we promised to fight and to win, now is the time to do what is best for all of us. This evening is about recognizing the good. An evening of modesty and good conduct. I am not arrogant, and I certainly won't gloat.

– Moshe Kahlon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It would be very difficult to teach children any sort of modesty and humility if a parent thought it OK to be naked in front of their children. It also would bring up questions and conversations they might not be ready to handle.

– Terry Greenwald

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

– Bernard Mandeville