Devised Quotes

149 quotes by 139 authors

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the… — Karen Armstrong
Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman. — Richard Yates
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with… — Jenny Colgan
Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's… — Suzanne Collins
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception. — Jasper Fforde
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for… — Cormac McCarthy
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his… — Stephen Fry
One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots. — Lisa Kleypas
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;… — John Gresham Machen
It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition… — Neil Gaiman
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe — William Shakespeare
The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not… — Andrew Carnegie
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever… — Matthew Yglesias
Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market. — P.J. O'Rourke

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