Contrivance Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for… — Jimmy Carter
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple… — Robert Collier
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth… — Thomas Jefferson
My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and… — Alphonsus Liguori
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human… — Gerrit Smith
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that,… — Jamake Highwater
Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will… — Jack Abramoff
Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver! — Thomas A. Edison
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang… — William Hazlitt
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement. — George Bernard Shaw
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a… — Samuel Johnson

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