Famous quotes containing the words line and/or mode:
“If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.”
—Andrew Jackson (17671845)
“Happiness is a matter of ones most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for ones ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
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