Mode Quotes

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.