Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the… — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them… — Saint Timothy Copy Share Image
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world)… — Dan Smoot Copy Share Image
The Healthiest Response to life is Laughter.There is always a reason to be grateful.You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Jimmy Carter, who embraced all manner of schemes to make America a second or third-rate country, came down so squarely in favor… — Patrick Bedard Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations.… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions.… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American. — Morris Fishbein Copy Share Image
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods. — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose… — Richard B. Livingston Copy Share Image
I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance. — John Rocker Copy Share Image
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image