Schemes Quotes

418 Schemes quotes by 363 unique authors

The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who… — Robert Graves
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. — Richard Reti
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists… — Henry Hazlitt
But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More district heating schemes.… — Chris Huhne
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it… — Georges Bernanos
The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally. — Tim Lee
We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit into… — Sylvia Earle
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the… — James Payn
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in… — Alexander Hamilton
Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun! — Frank Muller
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall… — Scott Carpenter
There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for… — James Madison
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer… — Mark Twain
We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow… — William E. Rees
I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things. — Jai Rodriguez
Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such… — Ann Coulter
Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since wages were paid… — Ann Coulter
As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted… — Ann Coulter
A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done. — Albert Hadley
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, — Julia Gillard
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings. — Bayard Rustin
His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit… — Matthew Shipp
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, Â are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown.… — Samuel Adams

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