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Contrive Quotes (page 3)

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy
Robert Mugabe quote: "Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. Robert Mugabe
Freddie Mercury quote: "It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you..."
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived. Freddie Mercury
Edward Gibbon quote: "A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. Edward Gibbon
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. Robert Fortune
Robert Englund quote: "You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the..."
You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. Robert Englund
It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal. Fred Durst
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station. William Falconer
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction. Jesse Eisenberg
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. Rex Stout
Potter Stewart quote: "To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe..."
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. Potter Stewart
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances. Stanley Crouch
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
Hesiod quote: "Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and..."
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds. Hesiod

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