Mode Quotes

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. (Matthew Arnold)
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. View quote
Montesquieu
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. View quote
Elihu Root
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. (Nicolaus Copernicus)
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. View quote
Martin Gore
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. View quote
Barry McGuire
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. View quote
Henry Mayhew
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 do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. View quote
Jacqueline Bisset
Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists. View quote
John Dewey
The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. (John Ruskin)
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular” writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Compared to the refined culture of sclerotic forms and frames, which mask everything, the lyrical mode is utterly barbarian in its expression. Its value resides precisely in its savage quality: it is only blood, sincerity, and fire. View quote
Emil Cioran
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier. View quote
Robert E. Howard