Quotes About Schemes

Did I hurt you in the parking lot?""No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car."Great.

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

The more complex the strategy, the less truth there is in it.

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.

The gods do make playthings of us," the priest-king acknowledged. "But it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

Ponzi austerity schemes, just like Ponzi growth schemes, necessitate a constant influx of new capital to support the illusion that bankruptcy has been averted.

The result of all these unrealized schemes, however, was that Obama and Putin did not speak again for the next three years, until Putin became president again. No matter what the Russian constitution said, that lack of contact was not good for U.S.-Russian relations.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Life is much richer and more complex than even the most perfect plans to make it better. It ultimately takes vengeance for attempts to impose abstract schemes, even with the best of intentions. Perestroika has made us understand this about our past, and the actual experience of recent years has taught us to reckon with the most general laws of civilization.

A variation of Get Rich Quick schemes was robbing Peter to pay Paul, or benefiting one person at the expense of others. The origin of the phrase is open to dispute, but one account traces it to the 1500s in England, when the lands of Saint Peter's Church at Westminster were sold to fund repairs at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.

As I listened to the inmates' schemes to reenter the world, I did not miss the irony that we were being released while the innocent remained behind. We were the scourge on society. We were the "lepers," And we were about to be set free.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil,

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.