I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

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.

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

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

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.

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.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

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.

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.

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent persuasive and unrealistic.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

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

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.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived and glamour although the manufacturers won't like this cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.