#scheme

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#build #could #every #industry #keeping

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#merriment #more #nothing #scheme #than

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#first #future #innovative #more #need

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#coming #figure #i #i can #just

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

#film #grand #important time #life #most

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— David Trimble

#circumstances #civil #colour #discriminating #distinguishing

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#desires #feet #like #off #our

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

#count #fundamental #fundamental purpose #fusion #julian

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

#get #i #i think #important #know

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#anonymous #connection #grand #how #know