We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i. e. , oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
From out the peaceful hollow of its throat such music pours as I am unaware how to devise. I did not think these things. It is the reed that sings.
A church is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not simply another nonprofit organization, nor is it a social club. In fact, a healthy church is unlike any organization that man has ever devised, because man didn't devise it.
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
When there is a conflict, which group's sense of right and wrong should prevail? If a morality is a system that allows individuals to form a group and to get along with each other, then the challenge is to devise a system that allows different groups to get along - what I call a meta-morality.
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"
It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.
You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me!. . . I do not deserve my lot!. . . O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!
Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.
I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.