Contriv'd Quotes

#1. The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. I've got a Ferrari 430. It's black. I don't know what it cost but it wasn't cheap. I bought it because I was being a boy. It's fast and looks good.

Jermain Defoe

#3. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

William Glasser

#4. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer.

Mitch Albom

#5. There is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom

Janet Kagan

#6. I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#7. The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

Sri Aurobindo

#8. If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

Byron Katie

#9. Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

St. Vincent

#10. I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.

Denis Napthine

#11. I came across a lot of young composers who have got passion but lack experience. I want to help them out.

Sukhwinder Singh

#12. To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away,

Vikram Seth

#13. 10 For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry. 11 Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriv ing treachery in his mind.

Anonymous

#14. It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. This song is sweet. It is sweet. The heart dies of this sweetness.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly

#16. Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change

Nikki Gemmell

#17. With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.

Kim Harrison