The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper – complete coincidence – does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.
There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.
I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.
In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character, the further development (or in-dept analysis, "appronfondissement", Fr. ) of the faculties of the intelligence ("les facultés de l'intelligence", Fr. ), the refinement of the consciousness and of the heart, are considered incidental (or subordinate) things.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L. A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
I didn't just invent saying offensive things.
Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.
In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.