Quotes About Devise

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

Dostoyevsky developed the theory that the worst torture one could possibly devise would be to force someone to endlessly perform an obviously pointless task.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

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

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

This, then, do you consider, and devise how both you yourselves may be saved and this land, and I be not brought into ill odor with the citizens; for I have not absolute sovereignty, as over barbarians; but if I do just things, I shall receive just things.

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,

Who then devised the torment? Love.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.

The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection. We certainly

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Schrodinger, for one, rejected it vehemently, regretting having devised the equation that gave rise to it.

Conservative journalists don't just have the inside track on Republican strategy - they help devise it.

Adieu, valour: rust, rapier: be still, drum, for your manager is in love: yea, he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit: write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

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