quotes about Schemes
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A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
-- Albert Hadley -
Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
-- Ali MacGraw -
The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.
-- Bernard MadoffSource : "The Madoff Tapes". Interview with Steve Fishman, nymag.com. February 27, 2011.
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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.
-- Bobby Seale -
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Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
-- Charles SaatchiSource : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
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It was always intended, though, that where Australian workers could negotiate better benefits as well with their employer, that those benefits come in in addition to the existing paid parental leave scheme.
-- Chris BowenSource : "Josh Frydenberg confirms wife used two parental leave schemes - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2015.
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Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.
-- David Deutsch -
In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.
-- David GraeberSource : David Graeber (2014). “Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years”, p.505, Melville House
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The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years
-- David Willetts -
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You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.
-- Delano Johnson -
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
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 a lot of the time.
-- Etgar Keret -
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Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.
-- Ferdinand FochSource : Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”
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... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
-- Florence Nightingale -
Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!
-- Frank Muller -
Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.
-- Gavin de BeckerSource : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
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Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.
-- George R. R. Martin -
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
-- Heather Donahue -
It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.
-- Holly Black -
The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.
-- Hugh MacLennan -
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I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.
-- Jai RodriguezSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
-- James Lovelock -
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.
-- Jean-Baptiste SaySource : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.148, Coventry House Publishing
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She wanted out of the decorating scheme.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
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Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
-- Jesse Helms -
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.
-- Joel Hodgson -
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 easy was the whole point.
-- Jon KrakauerSource : Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.135, Pan Macmillan
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Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
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Coffee first. Schemes later.
-- Leanna Renee HieberSource : Leanna Renee Hieber (2011). “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul”, p.12, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
-- Lyman AbbottSource : Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
-- M. M. Pallam Raju -
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 are willing to die for.
-- Paul Watson -
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Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.
-- Phil Robertson -
Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
-- Philip James Bailey -
Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.
-- Rachel Maddow -
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
-- Sean Parker -
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She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.
-- Steig Larsson -
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
-- T. E. Brown -
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
-- Vandana Shiva -
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
-- Walter Gilbert -
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The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.
-- Nigel Gibson -
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
-- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury