#contrive

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#career #contrived #destroys #hear #hype

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

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

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

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

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#completion #contrive #endings #i #like

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

#deliberate #dishonest #enemy #great #great enemy

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#capital #contrived #enjoy #good #happiness

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#contrived #good #happiness #man #much