Tearing Modes

Famous quotes containing the words tearing and/or modes:

“Pray, let us live without being drawn by dogs, Esquimaux- fashion, tearing over hill and dale, and biting each other’s ears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)