Top 151 Scheme Quotes

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
Josh McDowell
There’s not one year to the next that you don’t go through a number of changes, whether it’s personnel, whether it’s coaching, whether it’s scheme.
Jason McCourty
The rules or ‘laws’ of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
Louis MacNeice
I don’t write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
Padgett Powell
I recently declined to support a Conservative function because I’m so incensed about these wind turbines. Like all so-called climate-change doubters, I am very pro the environment, but I strongly believe that it is something that can only be cured locally. Some insane overall scheme isn’t going to cure all the problems.
Tim Rice
I would not support any scheme which suggested that people should be taxed for living in their own home.
Gladys Berejiklian
I have no grand scheme.
Dave Attell
I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren’t for me. It was somebody else’s vision and somebody else’s dream and somebody else’s artistic endeavor, but it didn’t necessarily fit in my grand scheme.
Chadwick Boseman
With Anil bhai, it is not only Virat or any other big player, but every player is in his scheme of plans. Even the ones who will not be playing regularly in the side. I feel that is a very important thing.
Shikhar Dhawan
If national safety – the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes – depends on the execution of explicit plans, on soldierly obedience, and on showy security drills, then a decentralized security scheme is useless.
Gary Wolf
Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
Quentin Tarantino
In the overall scheme of things, Tommy Dreamer and The Franchise are opposite characters.
Shane Douglas
The combination of Ponzi’s huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it.
Mitchell Zuckoff
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That’s obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
Dambisa Moyo
I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect.
Bradley Wiggins
I don’t want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don’t think that’s the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it’s very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.
Rich Eisen
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
As prime minister, I was conscious of walking in Whitlam’s footsteps as our government set about creating a companion to Medicare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Julia Gillard
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
When a comedian can turn hero and has the will power to work out for a six pack, he can easily fit into the director’s scheme of things.
Tanikella Bharani
It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
Jerry Weintraub
The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.
Frances Beinecke
You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then you understand what the promoting is. These guys are friendly backstage, but as soon as the cameras turn on, it’s a whole different story: you become that character.
Colby Covington
I’ve tried to learn what everybody is doing, not just my one position. If you know the whole scheme, it’s easier.
Tavon Austin
Really, the scheme is not going to win you a possession

Really, the scheme is not going to win you a possession or even a game. You have to burn some calories and make some things happen.
Erik Spoelstra
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It’s a Ponzi scheme that’s not sustainable.
Gary Johnson
I have great memories of the old Times Square – wouldn’t have missed being here to see that place for the world – but I can also deal with the new Times Square in the overall scheme of N.Y. City 2010.
Lee Ranaldo
It is my dream to get international acclaim. In the current scheme of things you need not go anywhere else because great films are being made in Malayalam.
Tovino Thomas
Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
Pamela Meyer
I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the ‘security’ out of Social Security.
Mary Landrieu
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
Ada Lovelace
During his time at BHS, Sir Philip Green treated the company as his own personal plaything. Instead of investing in its branches and developing its brand, he ran down the pension scheme and used the company to line his own pockets.
Clive Lewis
It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express or implied mandate of the Parliament, is unconstitutional and void.
Prashant Bhushan
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Juan Goytisolo
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.
Audrey Strauss
We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by appointment as part of the National Gardens Scheme.
Mary Berry
Java the language is almost irrelevant. It’s the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I’ve seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers for Ada, and they all work. Not many people use them, but it doesn’t matter: they all work.
James Gosling
It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
D. J. MacHale
Everybody can be who they are within the scheme of the Seahawks and what we want to do.
Richard Sherman
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
Spencer Tracy
Whether it’s ‘Fish’ or ‘Annabel Scheme’ or ‘The Truth About the East Wind,’ I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold the kind of content I want to create.
Robin Sloan
I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a ‘budget’ is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can’t. This is a scheme to rob the poor and give to the rich.
Marcia Fudge
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode’ has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.
James Fenton
The Senate cannot confirm an individual… who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.
Jeff Sessions
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
But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let’s get our priorities straight. I think we all know what’s really important in life – winning an Oscar.
Ellen DeGeneres
The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
Pallam Raju
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Rush Limbaugh
I honestly think my top moment, personally, was main eventing ‘Hell in the Cell’ because of what that meant overall in the grand scheme of things.
Seth Rollins
I know I’m on a small cable reality show. I’m realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.
Jai Rodriguez
Unlike so many other conservative politicians, Paul Ryan doesn’t duck from answering questions about the reality of our entitlement problem. Ryan doesn’t only provide answers to how we solve the Social Security/Medicare Ponzi scheme on TV shows; he puts forward actual, workable plans: Paul Ryan’s Roadmap.
Will Cain