A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. — Richard Reti 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 mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing… — Samuel Johnson 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
The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through,… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can't worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get… — Mike Scioscia Copy Share Image
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It… — Cosima Spender 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
The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image