Scheme Quotes

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Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass… — Matt Taibbi
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's… — Quentin Tarantino
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would… — Malcolm Turnbull
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. — Kurt Vonnegut
We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not… — John Dewey
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. — Kurt Vonnegut
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor… — Clive Barker
To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control… — Philip Yancey
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,… — Jane Austen
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the… — Robertson Davies
some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's… — Sue Monk Kidd
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with… — Abraham Lincoln
You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of… — Terry Pratchett
I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't… — Annie Dillard
The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial… — Lisa Kleypas
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but… — Etgar Keret
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our… — Julio Cortazar

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