Conspired Quotes

#1. I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.

George Harrison

#2. Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be found here in concentrated form.

Alasdair Gray

#3. When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Steve Jobs

#4. I am no one's agent. I am the agent of the law. All the conspiracies pass through my hands. The Committee, you know, draws its present unity from being conspired against. I do not know what would happen if the policy of believing in conspiracies were changed.

Hilary Mantel

#5. I had given Holmes this wedding as a gift-only to have him turn around and hand it back to me tenfold. And now his two oldest friends in all the world had conspired against our plans, casually rendering our feeble attempts at a gift into solid gold.

Laurie R. King

#6. We are so lucky to live here, he would say, and she couldn't disagree. They were lucky that the earth had conspired to heap up such startling beauty in one place, and they were lucky that it hadn't all fallen apart yet in a a geological catastrophe.

Chris Adrian

#7. He saw that all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart; since his very detachment from the external influences which swayed her had increased his spiritual fastidiousness, and made it more difficult for him to live and love uncritically.

Edith Wharton

#8. It seemed the heavens themselves conspired to cover up our crime.

Jenny Lloyd

#9. It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

Regina Doman

#10. I didn't want to do it,' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.

Graham Parke

#11. The universe has always conspired to fuck me up.

Tom Spanbauer

#12. It is imperative for many branches of fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against ... so they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and concoct these vast and dark organizations that exist nowhere but in the minds of those who conceive these theories.

J. Michael Straczynski

#13. God and his angels have conspired to send you love." Monroe said

M.A. Kane

#14. These were officials accorded high respect. Yet they conspired, and still I destroyed them. If your abilities surpass theirs, then make your play. Otherwise, change your hearts and serve me, to save the Empire from further ridicule.

Jonathan Clements

#15. He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against;

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Sydney J. Harris

#18. if the gospels had been identical to each other, word for word, this would have raised charges that the authors had conspired among themselves to coordinate their stories in advance, and that would have cast doubt on them.

Lee Strobel

#19. I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

Sue Monk Kidd

#20. Our desire for certainty, our need to be right, and our tendency to miss the point have conspired to keep Christians from experiencing unity, and instead have led to endless divisions within the Christian faith.

Adam Hamilton

#21. In 2003 ... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

Joseph J. Romm

#22. It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.

Leylah Attar

#23. U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.

Jim Marrs

#24. He was elated by his own profundity. It was as if the gods had conspired that he be full of wisdom.

Aporva Kala

#25. We have lived with the shadow of separation our entire lives. Before we even knew of each other's existence, fate conspired to keep us apart. We've always known it could come to this.

Siobhan Davis

#26. The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#27. My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.

Tony Kushner

#28. The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.

Drew Karpyshyn

#29. He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog.

Ian Rankin

#30. Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right.

Mark Slouka

#31. Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

Christopher Marlowe

#32. The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.

Jim Garrison

#33. But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history.

Joseph J. Ellis

#34. These people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance ...

Ben Marcus

#35. I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Gary Weiss

#36. I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

Eskinder Nega

#37. She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a mess she was incapable of fixing.

J. Robert Lennon

#38. The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

Pankaj Mishra

#39. I have known persons without a friend
never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

William Hazlitt

#40. As Einstein might have put it, only a very malicious (and, therefore, in his mind unimaginable) God would have conspired to have created a universe that so unambiguously points to a Big Bang origin without its having occurred.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#41. Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the teacher is the worst criminal, but the world stands behind him and drags the student from his course.

Henry Adams

#42. ( ... ) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.

Amitav Ghosh

#43. My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

Randy Quaid

#44. The seventh John Smith had even conspired to have a conspiracy against himself in Argentina, with resulting civil war, so that the weapons could be tested under actual battle conditions--for the region had been overpopulated anyway.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#45. The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other's reading to share a casual delight.

Keith Donohue