Devise Quotes

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A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their… — Lorraine Hansberry
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills… — Charlotte Bronte
To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,… — Thomas Hardy
Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. — Alan Moore
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual… — Robert A. Heinlein
Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He shall be washed… — P. C. Cast
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise. — Lisa Kleypas
There is something about wills which brings out the worst side of human nature. People who under ordinary circumstances are perfectly upright and amiable, go… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that… — John Stuart Mill
She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord Akeldama's safety. Which… — Gail Carriger
Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me… — Stephen Fry
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than… — Homer
we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines… — Richard J. Foster
Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted. — Rick Riordan
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. — Ray Bradbury
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham

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