Contrive Quotes

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There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take… — Sun Tzu
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! — Thomas Carlyle
Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of… — Robert Kanigel
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It… — B.F. Skinner
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval… — Samuel Johnson
It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas… — Thomas Paine
I, ever knowing the living beings Who tread the Path and those who do not In response to those who may be saved Preach to… — Gautama Buddha
Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in… — Gerolamo Cardano
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He… — Edmund Burke
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,… — Vincent Van Gogh
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never… — Aristophanes
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have… — Edmund Burke
Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.… — John Milton
The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals — Cyril Connolly
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all… — Robert Fortune
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. — Samuel Johnson
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin

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