Scheme Quotes

346 quotes by 314 authors

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. — Julian Barnes
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett
This is the meanest thing anyoneâ€™s ever done to me,â€ I said, through my tear-clogged throat. â€œI want you to know that.â€ But even as… — Jennifer Weiner
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst. — Bernard Beckett
The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably… — Karen Chance
She wanted out of the decorating scheme. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Denial is a save now, pay later scheme. — Gavin de Becker
Whatâ€™s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome… — Steve Aylett
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,… — Leonard Cohen
Remember to remember your power - everything you've learned with these steps to financial freedom - and put it all into practice everyday, because in… — Suze Orman
She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of… — Toni Morrison
Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits." -David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme- — Lora Leigh
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. — Vandana Shiva
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal… — James Boswell
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to… — H. L. Mencken
If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob… — Mary Hoffman
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made… — Fred Rogers
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame… — Margaret Atwood

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