Quotes About Schemes

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

He also saw human nature as insatiably curious and reserved his highest praise for minds that created "schemes or systems of truth."11

While Rockefeller made it seem as if such shenanigans occurred far from his sphere, he was fully briefed by Thompson, who liked to boast of his maneuvers.

The wisest of the wicked schemes are actually foolish.

Don't be without understanding of the way your enemy thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices." Is there not also a subtle promise here? If God suggests we are not to be ignorant of Satan's schemes, He must be willing to reveal them to us.

To the degree we are ignorant of the way our adversary thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices—to that degree he will gain on us, prey on us, defraud us of what is ours and have or hold the greater portion.

Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures.

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

This year he'd been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice in all sorts of schemes that, even in their innocence, had been thrilling

I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect ... But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa's and Charlotte's sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it. I have many schemes in my head for future practice -- humble and limited indeed -- but still I should not like them all to come to nothing, and myself to have lived to so little purpose. But God's will be done.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

Nunca supe si Artimañas me había vendido a regio. Nunca se lo pregunté, ni siquiera compartí mis sospechas con Chade. Supongo que no quería saberlo. Intenté impedir que afectara mis lealtades. Pero en el fondo de mi corazón, cuando decía «mi rey» me refería a Veraz.

Your grandfather's dream—' he whispered, like all his grand schemes could be unfucked. Like King Scale could be unkilled.

plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

I've studied a lot of different players throughout the years. One of the ones that I think I've pulled a lot of his stuff and tried to incorporate into my game, and that's Larry Fitzgerald. The way that he's able to recognize schemes, pre-snap, allows him to play faster once the play starts.

Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.

That was the story of college: one obsession after another; an advance followed by a retreat; a breakthrough dissolving into a setback. It was a reprise of the years preceding it and an omen of the years to come.It It could be broken down into the forces and schemes that propelled me

Paul raised his voice: Observe her, comrades! This is a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, patient in a patient cause. She could wait with her sisters -- ninety generations for the proper combination of genes and environment to produce the one person their schemes required. Observe her! She knows now that the ninety generations have produced that person. Here I stand . . . but . . . I . . . will . . . never . . . do . . . her . . . bidding!

As for me, I'll do what I do best. I'll lie, cheat, steal, and survive!

Sandra Brown