#mode

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#age #entertainment #everything #film #going

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. ↗

— Bille August

#big #century #come #dream #eve

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bedrock #built #core #core values #ensuring

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#appointment #discuss #drawn #duties #exercising

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#disciplined #enriched #especially #eternal #human

Modesty is the conscience of the body. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#conscience #modesty

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#believe #course #customers #either #go

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#capitals #die #each #fighting #home

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq. ↗

— John Abizaid

#arab #cause #clear #community #effort

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#humanity #identify #long #modes #ourselves