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Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. — Janet Morris

Death is the mother of beauty, mystical,
Within whose burning bosom we devise
Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. — Wallace Stevens

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler

The challenge for the principal, then, is to devise incentives to ensure that she (the agent) will act in the best interest of her principal. This — Janine Wedel

Devise a simple strategy so you can sleep at night. — Walter Schloss

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal. — Hal Rogers

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach. — Ralph Marston

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. — Douglas MacArthur

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. — Nina Fedoroff

You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to. — Richard M. Nixon

We'd have to devise a plan, probably a rather Pyrrhic and unsatisfactory one. — Donna Tartt

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise. — Lisa Kleypas

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham

This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing. — Bernie Mcgill

In difficult ground, press on; In encircled ground, devise stratagems; In death ground, fight. — Sun Tzu

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. — Alan Moore

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. — Ray Bradbury

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic? — Storm Jameson

All-good, like the vain, capricious, cruel God of Job? With all of eternity at His disposal, what fiendish new tortures might He not devise? A limited — William Peter Blatty

I mean, have you ever tried to devise a mutually beneficial win-win solution with a guy who thinks he's the messiah? It — Chris Voss

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. — William Shakespeare

You have only to creep into a secluded corner or into a crocodile, to shut your eyes, and you immediately devise a perfect millennium for mankind. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs,
Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs. — Edmund Blunden

There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages. — Guy Deutscher

The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution. — Honore De Balzac

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot. — James Laughlin

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good. — Dave Ramsey

Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime — William Robson

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility. — Aleksandar Hemon

Unless we believe in the hero, what is there
To believe? Incisive what, the fellow
Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud ... — Wallace Stevens

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life. — Lyman Abbott

Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God's. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR. — Margaret Mead

Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted. — Rick Riordan

SANCTIFIED MATURED FERTILE UNIVERSAL CREATIVE SOUL MIRACLE WILL POWER WILL DEVISE DIVINE EXISTENCE BY SALVATION — Various

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler

How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps? — K.J. Bishop

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity. — Dexter Fletcher

You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don't welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself. — Abigail Biddinger

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world — Eglantyne Jebb

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. — Peter Singer

Why do
You thus devise
Evil against her?' 'For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore. — Adelaide Crapsey

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. — Terry Pratchett

Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven. — Lewis Sperry Chafer