#mode

Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an example of Christ-centeredness? Or have I just gotten comfortable in the "Christian routine" and forgotten why I've chosen to live this way? ↗

— Hannah Farver

#influence #modesty #love

Cursed,” he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#love-story #modern-myth #paranormal-romance #sea-stories #stay

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#edward-said #literary-criticism #literature #postmodernism #love

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspirational-quotes #modern-authors #music #paranormal #parapsychology

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#men #model #photography #relationships #vanity

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#achievement #inspirational #misattributed #modesty #recognition

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#inspirational #modeling #models #role-models #supermodels

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.' ↗

— Jack White

#building #cable #cars #creative #dead

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode. ↗

— Gary Wright

#countryside #during #english #english countryside #farm

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. ↗

— Akihito

#civilisation #japanese #keenly #learned #modernize