Quotes with invent

  • He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
  • It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
  • Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
  • What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
  • We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
  • Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Voltaire If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
    Original: Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Alan Kay The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • William Blake A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Allen Tate According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Jimmy Carter America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Umberto Eco Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Martin Luther Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • Oscar Wilde Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
    Vera, or the Nihilists (1883)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • J. G. Ballard Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Agatha Christie How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
    Death on the Nile (1937)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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