#mode

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#good #moderately #moderation #ought #principle

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#moderation #principle #temper #vice #virtue

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#being done #connection #done #every #explained

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#audiences #been #before #development #enthusiastic

I don't have a model's body. But I'm not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they're fat. I'm okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know? ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

#crazy #fat #i #i can #know

Each person must live their life as a model for others. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#life #live #model #must #others

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#better #cover #david #dumb #feel

I modelled my looks on the town tramp. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#looks #modelled #town #tramp

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#as far as #concerned #copying #easy #far

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

#developed #earlier #element #general #important