#contrive

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

— Wilhelm Reich

#chaos #contrived #foothold #living #phenomena

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. ↗

— Rex Stout

#character #contrived #flat #round #she

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#dance #flat #i #liked #looks

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#becomes #contrived #joke #just #much

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ↗

— Learned Hand

#answers #calls #constant #contrived #hastily

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

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

— Edward Gibbon

#execute #hand #head #heart #resolve

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

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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