Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on. — Unknown Author
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as… — Philip Levine
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up. — Donna Tartt
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or… — George Combe
For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations,… — Charles E. Wilson
Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is… — E. P. Thompson
The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent… — Robert Sternberg
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. — Martin H Fischer
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled… — Karen Armstrong
Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves. — T-Pain
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to… — Lynn Nottage
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction,… — Oscar Hijuelos
The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they… — Marilyn Monroe
A poor joke must invent its own laughter. — Latin Proverb
Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom… — Bible
I saw a product on late night tv. It said, you can water your hard-to-reach plants with this product. Who the fuck would make their… — Mitch Hedberg
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. — Voltaire
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the… — Marcel Proust
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business. — Francis Bacon Sr
Beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake
How could such an absurd and unfair society that torments with self alienation the human being, already completely alienated be still saved? How could a… — Sorin Cerin
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… — John Barth
If you cannot discover happiness, invent it. — Tasneem Hameed
It has become difficult to discover truth, easy to invent. — Tasneem Hameed
If you cannot discover truth, never try to invent it. — Tasneem Hameed

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