Modishness Quotes

#1. What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

Walter Benjamin

#2. At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam.

Paddy Ashdown

#3. We live in a world of media that are constantly telling us it is only the shape of your body that matters to how attractive you are, and that's silly.

Guy Branum

#4. The only way to love a person is ... by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

Brenda Ueland

#5. It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

Thomas Aquinas

#6. The country girls were considered a menace to the social order. Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.

Willa Cather

#7. Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary.

Pat Allen

#8. The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.

Tom Holland

#9. The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen

Dean Cavanagh

#10. There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. I guess everyone wants what they don't have.

Kasie West

#12. Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.

Gina Greenlee

#13. What we do makes a difference and what we think about influences what we do.

Sam Owen

#14. Women seem to think they go on diets in order to feel happier, but I know from experience that this isn't true. In fact, I can safely say that the less women eat, the grumpier they get.

Martin Pistorius

#15. Pinole was a favorite treat of the Apache, and too many knew how they hungered for the sweet. By keeping the Indians on short rations, they were made vulnerable to attacks like this one, when white men came to the reservations

Raine Cantrell