Schemed Quotes & Sayings

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree ... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot. — Ian McEwan

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The Roman world, like an aged man, wished to dwell in peace and tranquillity and to enjoy in philosophic detachment the good gifts which life has to bestow upon the more fortunate classes. But new ideas disturbed the internal conservatism, and outside the carefully guarded frontiers vast masses of hungry, savage men surged and schemed. The essence of the Roman peace was toleration of all religions and the acceptance of a universal system of government. Every generation after the middle of the second century saw an increasing weakening of the system and a gathering movement towards a uniform religion. Christianity asked again all the questions which the Roman world deemed answered for ever, and some that it had never thought of. — Winston S. Churchill

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back. — Haruki Murakami

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time. — May Sarton

Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything. — Langston Hughes

If you can learn everything or imagine everything, imagine everything. — C.W. Thomas

The working of the mind discover oft
Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act.
More hateful still the miscreant who seeks
When caught, to make a virtue of a crime. — Sophocles

Vampires are harmless. All they want is your blood. — Marty Rubin

I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life. — Dave Grohl

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise — Isadora Duncan

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles. — Yoko Ono

I forced myself to open my eyes. I was a Puckett, damn it. And Pucketts didn't lose our nerve. We schemed, we interjected, we occasionally drank too much and told someone what we really thought of them at a Christmas party, but we never lost our nerve. — Molly Harper

Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline. — Lisa Snowdon

I just want to be in a winning situation. That's the whole thing. It's nothing financial. — Corey Dillon

Things get better - hurt less - over time. If you let them. — Rainbow Rowell

Resistance to temptation means taking desire seriously. Both Jesus and Satan do. — Russell D. Moore

Some guys have trouble sleeping the night before an important round. I never have. Invariably, I sleep longer and better, and have more dreams, when I'm in contention and feeling pressure. — Tom Watson

My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven. — Joseph Losey

A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid. — Jean De La Bruyere

Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up! — Israelmore Ayivor

In Leon's life, or rather, in his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or lied or betrayed. Everyone was celebrated at least in some degree, as though it was a cause for wonder that anyone existed at all. — Ian McEwan

We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free. God help us both, Harry, for we will never be rid of each other. Not even death will do that. — Sharon Kay Penman

They say that time is the fire in which we burn. — Malcolm McDowell

I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once. — James Goldman

Three days ago we not only ruled the earth, we had survivor's guilt about all the other species we'd wiped out on our climb to the nirvana of round-the-clock cable news and microwave popcorn. Now we're the Flashlight People. — Stephen King

And they schemed but God also schemed and God is the Best of Schemers. — Anonymous