Top 28 Contriving Quotes
#1. cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties," she wrote. They get their order from below; they are learning machines, pattern recognizers - even when the patterns they respond to are unhealthy ones.
Steven Johnson
#2. There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley
#3. Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving ... conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.
John Dewey
#4. The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#5. The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.
Richard M. Weaver
#6. Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
Robert Mugabe
#7. All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.
Winston Graham
#8. I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.
Samuel Johnson
#10. It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#11. The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
Matthew Arnold
#12. The art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.
John Ruskin
#13. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
Samuel Johnson
#15. World-comedy of Love's contriving - naive fools of fancy, passionately weaving the cords that are to strangle passion.
Henrik Ibsen
#16. I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me.
Virginia Woolf
#17. We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
Samuel Johnson
#19. Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.
Margi Preus
#20. I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
Abigail Williams
#21. Assume that your reader is tired, bored, and pressed for time.
Lyn Dupre
#22. Real scientists investigate parts, not wholes. But this diminishes the goals of true science. What most scientists are doing today really should be called technology, not science.
T. Colin Campbell
#23. Her lips write silent poetry upon mine.
B.L. Berry
#24. People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.
John Harvey-Jones
#25. minerals. This experience again proved to me that what is termed disease is actually a deficiency which results from an imbalance in the natural environment. It also reminded me of the close relationship between the human body and the natural elements of the earth.
Joseph Dispenza
#26. You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.
Bob Newhart
#28. When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,
or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,
farewell cool reason and fair discretion.
Laurence Sterne
