Contriving Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose… — Robert Creeley
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they… — Samuel Johnson
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing… — Mark Twain
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in… — James Madison
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving. — James Russell Lowell
The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the… — Richard M. Weaver
If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. — Robert Mugabe
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. — Matthew Arnold
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and… — John Dewey

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