Mode Quotes
472 quotes by 393 authors
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
— Aristotle
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
— Malin Akerman
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The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
— Deepak Chopra
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Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what…
— Amy Chua
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I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.
— Tori Amos
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median -…
— Tom Peters
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Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve…
— Elon Musk
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a…
— Oscar Wilde
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
— Richard Cobden
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
— Samuel Johnson
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The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which…
— George Washington
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I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is…
— Francis Frangipane
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to…
— William Whewell
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The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
— Emil Brunner
Who Wrote These Mode Quotes
393 authors contributed a total of 472 Mode Quotes, led by these top contributors: