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Quotes About Scheme

Social security isn't a ponzi scheme. It's not bankrupting us. It's not an outrage. It is working.
~ Rachel Maddow
A plan that is not written is just an idea.
~ Dwain Siady
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.
~ David Deutsch
should be present on the day the House was organized. If Etheridge persisted in his scheme, the President remarked grimly, he would "be carried out on a chip," and he promised to have a troop of soldiers ready to assist.
~ David Herbert Donald
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
~ Leonard Cohen
The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.
~ Bernard Madoff
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.
~ Peter Garrett
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
~ Grover Cleveland
Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone's agenda. It should be a people's movement.
~ Narendra Modi
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
~ Samuel Johnson
The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
~ Ali Khamenei
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
~ James Merrill
Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.
~ Criss Jami
If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~ Unknown
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.
~ Jane Austen
It will be a broad work, with strategies coming from many different sources. I will give one part of a plan to one person, another to others. This will take place simultaneously, and often one ministry or person will not even realize they are a part of a larger scheme. But I will be cutting off Satan's strength from every direction, as through the watchman anointing My people discern from Me.
~ Dutch Sheets
From whatever angle he viewed their dawning intimacy, he could not see it as part of her scheme of life; and to be the unforeseen element in a career so accurately planned was stimulating even to a man who had renounced sentimental experiments.
~ Edith Wharton
They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression. On the present scheme it is impossible to divine what advantage they derive from the aristocratic preference upon which the unequal representation of the masses is founded.
~ Edmund Burke
Our fascination with the cosmos is of the same nature as the feeling that inspired ancient creation myths. It is rooted in the desire to understand the origin and the destiny of the universe, its overral design, and how we humans fit into the general scheme of things.
~ Alex Vilenkin
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.
~ John Moody
This game in a lot of ways, isn't that complex. You bring energy to the table and you've got a chance. You bring fundamentals to the table and you've got a chance. It's not always about scheme and all that magic-behind-the-curtain stuff.
~ Sean McDermott
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
~ Adam Weishaupt