#scheme

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #scheme




For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.


H. L. Mencken


#associations #end #even #exactly #feel

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.


William Robertson Smith


#certain #conduct #fellow-men #fixed #general

I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.


Steven Soderbergh


#complex #demands #figure #film #films

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

Young men preen. Old men scheme.


Mason Cooley


#old #old men #scheme #young #young men

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers.


John Fowler


#development #enterprise #environment #grand #more

My only scheme was to be a rapper.


Eminem


#rapper #scheme

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.


Samuel Johnson


#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.


David Knopfler


#album #around #car #content #drive

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


#could #fascinating #fit #hope #i