Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Graeber

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

Etgar Keret

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.

Frank Herbert

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.

Holly Black

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Dave Attell

I have no grand scheme.

Jeffrey Eugenides

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

Tom Wolfe

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Rem Koolhaas

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

John Cridland

The question is whether compulsion would solve the problem of a lack of saving for retirement. We don't think it will.

Albert Einstein

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Aeschylus

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

James Stephens

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.

Ben Rogers

We are comfortable with compulsion in other walks of life, such as jury duty or the requirement to educate our children.

Nikki Giovanni

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.