Quotes About Mode

When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus—and that's why those words change the elements.

I call the Platonic mode "misintegration"—M. I call the Aristotelian mode simply "integration"—I. I call the Kantian mode "disintegration"—D.

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

Love is a mode of knowledge, and when the love is sufficiently disinterested and sufficiently intense, the knowledge becomes unitive knowledge and so takes on the quality of infallibility.

Nonlinearities are important not only because they confound our expectations about the relationship between action and response. They are even more important because they change the relative strengths of feedback loops. They can flip a system from one mode of behavior to another.

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

By inviting in these experiences of interconnectedness we can enhance our sense of belonging to our world. This mode of being widens and deepens our sense of who we are.

Voie étroite, en écrivant, entre la réhabilitation d'un mode de vie considéré comme inférieur, et la dénonciation de l'aliénation qui l'accompagne.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

if truth is the end of life, happiness is a mode of it, to be cherished in it's brief and tremulous moment.

Then you don't think the artist works from his intelligence? No. He goes on improving, if he can, what he imitates in the way of style, and choosing from his own interpretation of the things around him what constitutes material. But after all every writer writes because it's his mode of living.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

If we cannot think beyond how we emotionally feel, then we are living according to what the environment dictates to our body. Rather than truly thinking, innovating, and creating, we merely fire the synaptic memories in other areas of our brain from our genetic or personal past; we instigate the same repetitive chemical reactions that have us living in survival mode.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.

The spirit world is a world of thought; to think is to act, and thought is instantaneous. If we think ourselves into a certain place we shall travel with the rapidity of that thought, and that is as near instantaneous as it is possible to imagine. I should find that it was the usual mode of locomotion, and that I should soon be able to employ it.

He wasn't being deliberately offensive. It was just that offensive was his default mode.

Fashion was never my forte.

Vests are for more than just function - they are fashion.

Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.

Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will take what she needs from the book and leave out other things. With adaptations, you never get the texture of the writing: it's a different mode.

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.