Schemes Quotes

418 Schemes quotes by 363 unique authors

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand… — Matt Taibbi
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. — James Surowiecki
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. — Jonathan Swift
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
'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just… — Joss Whedon
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than… — Martin Filler
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
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. — Robert Burns
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. […] 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
Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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