#scheme

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#call #everything #guards #had #i

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#clever #contrived #country #does #go

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#best #cherished #failed #folly #life

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#collaboration #color #first #had #house

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#economics #free #krugman #schemes #nature

I'm scared of actors with a scheme. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#scared #scheme

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#circumstances #civil #color #discriminating #distinguishing

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#keep #roulette #schemes #street #too

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#creative #fighter #independent #little #must