#scheme

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#best #cherished #failed #folly #life

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#bound #children #commitment #family #father

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much more for systems programmers, not enterprise developers. ↗

— John Fowler

#development #enterprise #environment #grand #more

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme. ↗

— Diane Watson

#insurance #investment #program #scheme #security

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (To A Mouse) ↗

— Robert Burns

#fate #men #mice #planning #plans

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

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme. ↗

— Bernard Katz

#organized #organized religion #pyramid #religion #scheme

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing? ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#even #fit #his #how #i

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#between #budget #care #change #citizen