Devised Quotes

149 quotes by 139 authors

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. — Neal Shusterman
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we… — Warren G. Bennis
If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless. — Anwar Sadat
There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for… — Frederick Lenz
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the… — Isabel Wilkerson
And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is… — Dana Rohrabacher
At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd… — Guy Berryman
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can… — Rene Descartes
In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more… — Michael Enzi
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to… — David Horowitz
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should… — Derek R. Audette
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not… — Frederick Lenz
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support. — Richard Whately
There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of… — Theodore Roosevelt
In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or… — Henry Clay
The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular… — John Galliano
Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the… — Robert Ruark

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