Schemes Quotes

418 Schemes quotes by 363 unique authors

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You… — Graham Greene
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
Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. — Julian Barnes
We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! — Charles Stross
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a… — Wallace Stegner
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
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say… — Jane Austen
This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” 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
What’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
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does… — Aberjhani
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
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans? — Kazuo Ishiguro
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

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