Quotes About Devised

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

Everybody who has examined the UMMO documents without accepting them as extraterrestrial seems to think some committee devised them. Curiously, when the first Elmyr fakes came to light, most art Experts assumed a committee had done them . . .)

Had there been management consultants in those days, they couldn't have devised a better or wiser compromise.

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

This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then maybe.

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

I see neither the sense nor the need to stick to an immigration figure devised nearly a decade ago, which has never been met and does not fit the requirements of the country.

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

What compelled me about the story of Chernobyl more than anything else was something very universal. Yes, Chernobyl happened because in many ways, the Soviet system was deeply corrupt and evil, but the Soviet system did not arrive to us from some other planet. It was devised by humans.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Corruptio optimi pessima: no greater cruelty will be devised than by those who are sure, or are assured, that they are doing good.

As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.

Reported the papal legate: "The concept of liberum veto must have been devised in hell by a special devil charged with the task of destroying Christian Poland." In

Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. As I realized years later, that is still the finest theory of hitting yet devised.

It was if the devil himself had devised the perfect earthly torture for Lady Alicia Lawrence. "Now how will I occupy myself when I get to hell?

I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I'd put together, and I'd love for it to be nonverbal so it's something that someone with any communication ability can enjoy.

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.