Schemes Quotes

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

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.

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.

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.

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

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.

No reference is truly direct — every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

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.

The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Coffee first. Schemes later.

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.

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.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

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.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

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.

I have no grand scheme.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!

Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.

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.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.