Mode Quotes
472 quotes by 383 authors
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Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that,…
— Richard Wilbur
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Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as…
— Charles Spurgeon
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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as…
— Anthony Hope
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How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
— C.S. Lewis
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
— Don Roff
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Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person…
— Yukio Mishima
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Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.
— Rick Yancey
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Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss…
— Laini Taylor
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Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
— Charles Lamb
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History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
— Lord Acton
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Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of…
— Vaclav Havel
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I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high…
— David Bolinsky
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My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to…
— Trent Reznor
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China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This…
— Wen Jiabao
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It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into…
— Giles Duley
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The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a tightrope…
— Kevin Barry
Who Wrote These Mode Quotes
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