(223 quotes found)
“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this -- no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
Will Rogers
“Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.”
Comte de Mirabeau
““When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.””
Carlos Castaneda
“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
Jonathan Swift
“Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”
Margaret Laurence
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them”
William Osler
“Over the last twenty or thirty years, which in the scheme of things is fast, we've become comfortable as a society with homosexuality.”
Tom Ford
“There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Mark Twain
“Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?”
William Orville Douglas
