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Quotes About Scheme

They were all in a conspiracy against her! Mary, Niall, and Iain. Perhaps they had planned all this from the start.
~ Kathleen Morgan
Inspired by these meetings, Franklin created a scheme in which the Junto members would contribute funds toward buying books that all members could use. This model soon grew beyond Franklin's Friday evening gatherings, leading him in 1731 to write the charter for the Library Company of Philadelphia, one of the first subscription libraries in America.
~ Cal newport
Smack of conspiracy
~ Cameron Dokey
Like a giant Ponzi scheme, profits depended on an unending source of associates entering at the bottom of the pyramid, funneling cash up the chain,
~ Cameron Stracher
Like a giant Ponzi scheme, profits depended on an unending source of associates entering at the bottom of the pyramid, funneling cash up the chain, and departing before making partner.
~ Cameron Stracher
I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.
~ Rich Eisen
Dear God, there couldn't be a single thing more humiliating in this entire world. Unless, of course, Hairy had been out here in his maxi pad. Thomas sighed. Walking around the house with that thing tied around his waist, Hairy had looked like a—well, he'd looked like an ugly dog in a Kotex. Thomas had laughed his ass off at first, but soon discovered the crazy scheme had saved him about three cleanup jobs in one evening alone.
~ Susan Donovan
And I doubt they'll figure out our plan, since we can barely understand it ourselves.
~ Suzanne Collins
It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Drink then, he replied, still with the same cold composure. Does thou know mw so little Hester Pyrnne? Are my purposes wont to be so shallow? Even if I imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could i do better for my object than to let thee live-than to give the medicines against all harm and peril of life-so that this burning shame may still blaze upon thy bosom?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maybe that had been his plan all along, or maybe not. But one thing's for certain- now that I had said it, it was his plan.
~ Neal Shusterman
Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political of religious causes, or both combined.
~ Charles Mackay
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
~ Edward Gibbon
Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.
~ Brad Feld
I had a plan, all right, ... I was also pretty sure no one on my list of allies was going to like it.
~ Timothy Zahn
in Britain, for example, it meant that a centralized nickname system could be introduced. Under this scheme, companies and individuals could reserve a special word as their telegraphic address to make life easier for anyone who wanted to send them a telegram.
~ Tom Standage
family?" I asked. "If the DA will agree," Phil said. "Has this ever been done before?" I asked. They both shook their heads and laughed. "They are running an illegal scheme in which they are killing people for profit and to silence them. Sounds like wiseguys to me," Izzy concluded. The
~ Kieran Crowley
There goes my meeting. - Oona I'm sorry your latest get-rich-quick scheme has been temporarily put on hold. - DeeDee
~ Kirsten Miller
So it's on. A plan is made. I'm relaxed just knowing that he's going to be dead soon.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
~ Georges Bernanos
A single word often betrays a great design.
~ Jean Baptiste Racine
Get rich quick is usually a scam and always for suckers.
~ J.D. Robb
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
~ Thomas Edward Brown