Top 336 Modes Quotes & Sayings

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

If the modes are changing, one goes along with it, I guess.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Substance must itself be said of the modes and only of the modes.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

I love reform better than its modes.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.

The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.

Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

I have modes, mental modes that I get in, and when I'm on the road, I focus very much on doing the work. On playing the show, on being good every night. And part of me just gets switched off. The part that's very private and very personal and very intimate. That especially, that part of me gets shut off.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.