Contrive Quotes

51 quotes by 45 authors

Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure… — Ludwig von Mises
If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never… — George Henry Borrow
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… — Wendell Berry
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld
We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds,… — Junipero Serra
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive… — James Weldon Johnson
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere
We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best… — J. B. Priestley
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent… — George F. Kennan
English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their… — Pierre Daninos
Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their… — Herbert Read
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. — James Russell Lowell
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. — Edward Gibbon
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes… — Niccolo Machiavelli
â€¦. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be… — Albert Camus
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? — David Foster Wallace
Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he… — Diana Wynne Jones
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and… — P.D. James

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