(33 quotes found)
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
William Shakespeare
“The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.”
“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 over a cold decree.”
“And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.”
Cliff Shaw
“Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.”
Westbrook Pegler
“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
“We'll have to devise a way (to look at them). That's maybe the hardest thing about it is getting them enough work to look at them, but they're all doing special things that are making them stand out individually. We'll just have to see how they play.”
Gary Kubiak