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