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In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me. — Antonio Gates

I went into my first marriage, blank to the schemes of love. — Colum McCann

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans? — Kazuo Ishiguro

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business. — E.W. Howe

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler

Coffee first. Schemes later. — Leanna Renee Hieber

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. — Matthew Arnold

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all. — David Berlinski

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. — Bertrand Russell

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? — William O. Douglas

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. — Boyd K. Packer

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow". — James Alan Gardner

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy. — Robert Breault

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

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. — Maria Cantwell

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

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes. — Benjamin Disraeli

Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words. — Florence Nightingale

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes. — Laurel Lea

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

Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them. — Steve Maraboli

Who do you take me for?" "The devil?" Please. The devil wished he had half my style and a fourth my schemes. — Rob Thurman

Social security isn't a ponzi scheme. It's not bankrupting us. It's not an outrage. It is working. — Rachel Maddow

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right. — Alan Bean

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. — Andy Hargreaves

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become. — Carlos Castaneda

A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth. — David Stockman

Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical — Amos Bronson Alcott

Lord, please use Your Word to touch the hearts of those with whom opens the eyes of the spiritually blind. Don't let Satan's schemes win out. — Dennis Fisher

To hell with revenge, to hell with his schemes. If Rollins had done something to Inej, Kaz would paint East Stave with his entrails. — Leigh Bardugo

Don't tell me the Pigeon Whisperer dragged you into one of his stupid schemes. — Rachel Aaron

She wanted out of the decorating scheme. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. — Alan Moore

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. — Zachary Taylor

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

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

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man. — Chief Joseph

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes. — Christopher Hitchens

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

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up. — Joe Hill

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins. — Joe Abercrombie

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries. — Barbara Corcoran

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. — Charles Leadbeater

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains ... — Rumi

I saw now that love could not be stopped, forgotten, or transferred, no matter what schemes the mind and body devised. — Wendy Higgins

Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes. — Mary Midgley

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy. — Delano Johnson

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme. — Bernard Madoff

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins. — Henry David Thoreau

The very madness of the scheme protects it. — Iris Murdoch

On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. — James Surowiecki

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution. — Alexander Hamilton

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

Can the light dying behind my eyes be
recorded in rhyme schemes?
I meet this page in the morning beating back death
trying to re-member. — Sapphire.

He is loyal to you. It is his desire to be with you that drives him to these desperate schemes. — A.G. Howard

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. — George R R Martin

Asha believed a person seeking betterment should try as many schemes as possible, since it was hard to predict which one might work. — Katherine Boo

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

No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes. — Randy Alcorn

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system. — Adrian Rogers

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done. — Albert Hadley

You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe. — Deepak Chopra

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me. — Pat Summitt

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

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 Abbott

It is typical of government price-fixing schemes that they escape one undesired consequence only by plunging into another and usually worse one. — Henry Hazlitt

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

Ponzi schemes don't trickle down, they siphon up. — Heather Marsh

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

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

Evil is limited. One cannot form
A scheme for universal evil. — Philip James Bailey

There are 13 stories in 'The Fencepost Chronicles' about corrupt tribal leaders, trouble on the reserve, survival schemes, and communal drinking. — Gerald Vizenor

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

There was no end to the evil schemes that a thought machine that oversized couldn't imagine and execute. — Kurt Vonnegut

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy. — Deepak Chopra

Dumb hope is what it hurts most to write, occupying the foolish schemes we pursued for decades, the blind alleys, the cliffs we stepped off. — Mary Karr

We are quite small in the big scheme of things. — Amber Valletta

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future. — Ban Ki-moon

When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top. — Donald Trump

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains. — H.L. Mencken

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. — Susan May Warren

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution. — Murray Rothbard

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

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. — Henry David Thoreau

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. — Graham Greene

The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years — David Willetts

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe. — Joshua Cohen

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other. — Richard Cecil

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism, — Julia Gillard

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 Graeber

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. — Robert Burns

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. — Frank Lloyd Wright

They now see with Heaven's eyes the schemes, traps, enticements, and entertainments of the world in a new way. So — John Bunyan

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

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