Best Contrived Quotations
91 Contrived quotes by 80 unique authors
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Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward…
— Vita Sackville-West
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So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on…
— Herman Melville
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The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude.…
— Daniel Dennett
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The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices only as well…
— George Herbert
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Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.
— Josh Thomas
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
— Andrew Jackson
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For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be…
— David Rittenhouse
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The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain…
— William Falconer
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived…
— E. P. Thompson
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
— Samuel Johnson
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
— Samuel Johnson
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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Worrying about what others think, creates inhibition. The way to make a good impression on other people is: Never consciously try to make a good…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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