Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
Losing a goal in the last minute? Important, of course it is, but not really in the grand scheme of things.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.
I have been blessed when it comes to winning the titles, as I have won it all, and I am always in the scheme of things.
God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.
Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.
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.
I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.
Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!
In the overall scheme of things, Tommy Dreamer and The Franchise are opposite characters.
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
Growth is always there in the MPC's scheme of things; we don't lose sight of that, but not at the cost of inflation.
As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back on it as a tough few years.
Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.
Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.
Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.
Being an #? entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes #? strength of character to keep going.
Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.
We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.
There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.
I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.
Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.
If you try to give them a scheme, most hitters will rebel.
If you have a bonus scheme that is so complicated or so sensitive that you can't tell people what it is, then you shouldn't be doing it.
In the grand scheme of things, polar bears are the least of our problems when it comes to climate change.
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
I would not support any scheme which suggested that people should be taxed for living in their own home.
The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.
When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.
In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
I've tried to learn what everybody is doing, not just my one position. If you know the whole scheme, it's easier.
I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
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