Schemes Quotes

418 Schemes quotes by 363 unique authors

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us… — Terence McKenna
They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the… — Barbara Kingsolver
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents,… — Umera Ahmed
I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be… — Jon Krakauer
...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give… — Ernest Becker
I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to… — Mark Walden
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance… — Mikhail Lermontov
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are… — Ellen DeGeneres
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has… — Robert Graves
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I… — H.G. Wells
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and… — James Bryant Conant
There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy. — Robert Breault
The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion… — Alan Greenspan
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere… — Margaret Laurence
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained… — Henry David Thoreau
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. — Walter Gilbert
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become. — Carlos Castaneda
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of… — Joseph de Maistre
Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where… — Mary Schapiro
Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really… — Paul Theroux
I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes. — Bobby Seale
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe,… — P.J. O'Rourke
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a… — Jill Lepore
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism… — Aaron Klein
In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially… — Mitch Kapor

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