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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
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.
Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.
We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.
There's so much pressure on young people to go to university when they're 18 or 19, but actually, in the grand scheme of it, I don't think it matters to do it at that time.
For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.
The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a realization of the scheme and of one's own part in it.
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.
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.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.
If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
I would not support any scheme which suggested that people should be taxed for living in their own home.
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.
I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.
The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.
I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
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.
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.
Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.
I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'
I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.
When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
There was no grand scheme, no big push, there are things I would have done differently now but you make decisions on the hop and it takes you where you are.
It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.
Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this is too good to be true. The other side tells us this is too good to miss. The key to any con is getting a mark to tip to the too-good-to-miss side.
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.
I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.
Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.
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.
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?
Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.
Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.
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.
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.
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.
Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
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.
Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.
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.
