Quotes About Scheme

The assurance would be there, he thought, the assurance that life had a special place in the great scheme of existence, that one, no matter how small, how feeble, how insignificant, still did count for something in the vast sweep of space and time.

From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.

a criminal conspiracy devoted to theft of property

the con men never betray the game.

The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it's surprise would erase all sunrays.

That's how it worked in theory, but in reality nearly everybody was in on the deal and got a little piece of the pie for looking the other way. Before

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

You villain,' said I, 'what do you mean by entrapping me into your schemes? How dare you appeal to me just now, you false rascal, as if we had been in discussion together?

And profit was generated by what was essentially an elaborate pyramid scheme: at the apex were foreign commercial and financial houses; in the middle stood Brazilian merchants, traders, and a few exporters; and the whole thing rested on the backs of indebted tappers, who, as one critic put it, received goods on credit charged at fifty but in reality worth ten, in exchange for latex that the local merchant assessed at ten but that was actually worth fifty.

And yet the passive scheme he had his team play frustrated opponents so much, the Philadelphia Flyers actually just held the puck and stopped skating in a 2011 game, which the Wall Street Journal called "the worst hockey game ever.

Christ came down from heaven because no power other than that of God Himself was able to accomplish the work that was to be done. Incarnation and atoning work are thus set in the closest possible relation to one another; both belong to one scheme.

What was premeditated murder if not calculated leverage?

We have a plan.

Tommy has a plan

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

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

Universities should be supporting Teach First, actively promoting it among their students and financially supporting them to join the scheme, using a small fraction of their income from higher fees for this purpose.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

The ACA purposely constrains choice as a top-down means of cost control. Obamacare isn't a consumer-driven, high-deductible scheme. It's hollow coverage.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure