Schemes Quotes

418 Schemes quotes by 363 unique authors

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution. — Alexander Hamilton
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.… — George Washington
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we,… — Clifford D. Simak
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall… — William Graham Sumner
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you… — Paul Watson
As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future. — Ban Ki-moon
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And… — Alcibiades
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who… — Robertson Davies
Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business.… — James Hansen
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when… — Dar Williams
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial… — Edmund Burke
I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago.... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a… — Jim Bakker
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are being… — Unknown Author
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority… — Gary Steiner
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is… — Charlotte Bronte
He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to it. Oil is… — Unknown Author
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of… — Octavio Paz
I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. — Zachary Taylor
The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to… — Joe Heck
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes… — Mary Landrieu
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any… — B. C. Forbes
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford… — Andrew Motion
Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I… — Jim Butcher

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