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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. — Edmund Burke

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. — James Russell Lowell

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive. — Kimberly Adams Stedronsky

How can you contrive to write so even? — Jane Austen

When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica) — Shannon A. Thompson

We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two. — E. M. Forster

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. — Samuel Johnson

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden

There is no limit to the defenses we contrive against the inbreak of truth into our lives. — Brennan Manning

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals — Cyril Connolly

If you have an eye for a reward in December,award yourself in April! — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author. — Thomas Paine

The smartest cavaliers at the command 'To horse!'
contrive to be in time for both a horse and whores. — Volodymyr Knyr

I don't think you can contrive any sound. — George Shearing

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion. — Daniel Clowes

Marriage is much like wine. They both mature slowly and grow deeper and more complex with time. — Mia Sheridan

Everyone lives by different life code... my life code was the odd one. — Deyth Banger

This dance is the joy of existence. — Rumi

The Peace Panda Says ... Always be the person who reinforces the strength of all others in humanity. Your force will help change the world! — Timothy Pina

I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly. — Georgette Heyer

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth. — Jack Kirby

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! — Thomas Carlyle

That order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive — Friedrich August Von Hayek

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good. — Graham Greene

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle

What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich? — Upton Sinclair

How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? — G.K. Chesterton

Sometimes I wondered if the angels talked to get me to behave or to entice the devil to come out to play. — Penelope Douglas

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere

What sense is there in pain at all - however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God? — Anne Carson

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly. — Hirohito

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. — Edward Gibbon

Yes," he whispered, reaching out to hold my shoulders. "Just say yes. Say you'll be with me. — Chelsea M. Cameron

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates

None are as offended as those who contrive offense. — Kurt Hanks

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it. — John W. Campbell

Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? — David Foster Wallace

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song. — Gene Clark