“The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.”
Bible
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
William Shakespeare
“The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”
Marquis De Sade
“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
“The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.”
“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
Raymond Chandler
“"WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR."”
Margaret Mead
