Schemes Quotes - Page 2

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

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 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.

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

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

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

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

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.

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

Coffee first. Schemes later.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

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.

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.

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

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

Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

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

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