#contrive

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. ↗

— Simon Raven

#circumstances #contrived #gentlemen #manifestly #now

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#cars #contrived #dangerous #dangerous thing #dreams

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal. ↗

— Fred Durst

#contrived #credibility #filter #for the people #how

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station. ↗

— William Falconer

#before #contrived #great #great strain #ground

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#clever #contrived #country #does #go

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#consider #contrive #execute #furnishes #gives

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