Quotes of: Contrive Keyword

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

Will Champlin

It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

preemptive strike n. A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's plot for world domination.

The Doublespeak Dictionary: Your Guide to the Euphemisms, Dysphemisms, and Other Linguistic Contrivances of the State

terrorism n. Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political violence.

The Doublespeak Dictionary: Your Guide to the Euphemisms, Dysphemisms, and Other Linguistic Contrivances of the State

conservative n. A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny. liberal n. A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.

The Doublespeak Dictionary: Your Guide to the Euphemisms, Dysphemisms, and Other Linguistic Contrivances of the State

Your look shouldn't be contrived.

Leigh Lezark

Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.

Josh Thomas

I don't think you can contrive any sound.

George Shearing

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Charles Babbage

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Wilhelm Reich

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pierre Charron

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

Gale Harold

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Gene Clark

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Edward Gibbon

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived.

Axl Rose

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.

Fall

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

Robert Englund

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

The smartest cavaliers at the command 'To horse!' contrive to be in time for both a horse and whores.

Volodymyr Knyr