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 Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.
It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
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.
We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.
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.
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
Perhaps the nuclear physicists have come so near to the ultimate secrets that He thinks it time to bring their activities to a stop. And what simpler method could He devise than to let them carry their ingenuity to the point where they exterminate the human race?
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure. -- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.
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.
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
