Quotes about Schemes

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization. Votes: 6

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security. Votes: 6

Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security. Votes: 6

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Votes: 6

Work is a surefire money-making scheme. Votes: 4

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. Votes: 4

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. Votes: 4

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries. Votes: 4

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. Votes: 4

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings. Votes: 4

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. Votes: 4

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 when he was poor Votes: 4

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things. Votes: 4

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional. Votes: 4

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy! Votes: 4

I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below. Votes: 4

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 take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. Votes: 4

Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. Votes: 4

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. Votes: 4

We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points. Votes: 4

The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion. Votes: 4

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 seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. Votes: 4

Coffee first. Schemes later. Votes: 3

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. Votes: 3

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution. Votes: 3

Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident. Votes: 3

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods. Votes: 2

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me. Votes: 2

On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. Votes: 2

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress. Votes: 2

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, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. Votes: 2

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. Votes: 2

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do. Votes: 2

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 lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true. Votes: 2

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children. Votes: 2

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. Votes: 2

The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina. Votes: 2

Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work. Votes: 2

I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're part of the new way bands and their audience interact and they can be a fantastic resource, enabling bands to do things essentially in cooperation with their audience. It's pretty amazing, actually. Votes: 2

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well. Votes: 2

The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries throughout the movie. He has one of the best bad guy schemes. Votes: 2

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world. Votes: 2

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries. Votes: 0

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words. Votes: 0

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system. Votes: 0

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe. Votes: 0

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right. Votes: 0

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical Votes: 0

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth. Votes: 0

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes. Votes: 0

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes. Votes: 0

Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes. Votes: 0

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes. Votes: 0

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans? Votes: 0

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me. Votes: 0

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. Votes: 0

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins. Votes: 0

The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes. Votes: 0

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up. Votes: 0

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains.... Votes: 0

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare. Votes: 0

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes. Votes: 0

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done. Votes: 0

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? Votes: 0

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become. Votes: 0

Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them. Votes: 0

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. Votes: 0

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. Votes: 0

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. Votes: 0

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future. Votes: 0

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Fraudulent money schemes are prevalent in the society Votes: 0

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes. Votes: 0

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. Votes: 0

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Votes: 0

The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do. Votes: 0

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy. Votes: 0

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. Votes: 0

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly. Votes: 0

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! Votes: 0

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes. Votes: 0

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. Votes: 0

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. Votes: 0

Can the light dying behind my eyes berecorded in rhyme schemes?I meet this page in the morning beating back deathtrying to re-member. Votes: 0

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. Votes: 0

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 existed. Votes: 0

We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption. Votes: 0

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump can take major steps towards reassuring the American people that there can't even be appearance of impropriety for pay-to-play schemes under his administration. Votes: 0

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 over their funding schemes. Votes: 0

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else Votes: 0

To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood. Votes: 0

Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes. Votes: 0

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor. Votes: 0

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires. Votes: 0

If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes. Votes: 0

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security. Votes: 0

The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain. Votes: 0

ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes. Votes: 0