Stakes quotes

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
-- Al Gore

#Reality #Stakes #Magician

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#America #Management #Stakes

It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.
-- Alisher Usmanov

#Dream #Stakes

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
-- Amitav Ghosh

#Government #Stakes #Well Being

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.
-- Anthony Kennedy

#Grief #Mourning #Stakes

We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
-- Barack Obama

#Diversity #Together #Stakes

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Positive #Stakes #Existence

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Business #Purpose #Stakes

When the stakes are high, bow down low.
-- Beth Moore

#Bows #Lows #Stakes

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
-- Billy Crudup

#Play #People #Stakes

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.
-- Clinton Rossiter

#Government #Form #Stakes

A hot stake is better than a cold chop.
-- Curly Howard

#Hot #Cold #Stakes

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Agnostic #Pagan #Stakes

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
-- Derek Jarman

#Red #Claims #Stakes

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
-- Deval Patrick

#Dream #Want #Stakes

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
-- Diane di Prima

#Ransom #Break #Stakes

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
-- Edmond Rostand

#Stakes

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Heart #Sorrow #Stakes

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola,
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#Ebola #Battle #Stakes

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
-- Franz Grillparzer

#Too Much #Stakes #Insight

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Honor #Doe #Stakes

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
-- George Ade

#Fire #Woods #Stakes

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
-- George P. Shultz

#World #Common #Stakes

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
-- Geraldine Brooks

#Book #Burning #Stakes

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
-- Hannah Arendt

#World #Stakes

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.
-- Horatius Bonar

#Christianity #Eternity #Stakes

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
-- Ian Fleming

#Ambition #Stakes

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
-- Indira Gandhi

#Games #Political #Stakes

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Order #Succeed #Stakes

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.
-- John Boehner

#Israel #Stakes #Existence

The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.
-- John R. Rice

#Christian #World #Stakes

There is more at stake here than just our lives.  It is the lives around us.
-- Jonathan Kent

#Stakes

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada

#Cancer #Wake Up #Stakes

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes
-- Julian Clary

#Personality #Rodents #Stakes

Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.
-- Kevin Hearne

#Emo #Stakes #Vamp

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Nothing To Lose #Stakes

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
-- Lars von Trier

#Festivals #Film #Stakes

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
-- Lauren Bacall

#Real #Theater #Stakes

The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.
-- Louie Giglio

#Vision #Stakes

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
-- Maria Cantwell

#Heart #Stakes #Enron

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
-- Mario Vargas Llosa

#Democracy #Election #Stakes

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience
-- Martin Buber

#Stakes #Should #Existence

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
-- Michael Shermer

#Matter #Sticks #Stakes

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
-- Norbert Leo Butz

#Responsibility #Helping #Stakes

The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.
-- Pascal Boyer

#Violence #Cost #Stakes

Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?
-- Peter Lorre

#Heart #Thinking #Stakes

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.
-- Philip Gulley

#Home #Hands #Stakes

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
-- Pittacus Lore

#Stakes

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.
-- Pope Benedict XVI

#Believe #Stakes #Existence

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
-- R. C. Sproul

#Stakes

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
-- Ratan Tata

#Two #Wealth #Stakes

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
-- Robert Downey, Jr.

#Stakes #Higher

What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.
-- Terryl L. Givens

#Decision #Choices #Stakes

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
-- Werner Heisenberg

#Stakes

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
-- Will Patton

#Play #Action #Stakes

There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.
-- Deborah Kaplan

#Stakes #Mary #Jane

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Stakes

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.
-- Neal Brennan

#Should Have #Stakes #Should

I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
-- Rose McGowan

#Thinking #Stakes #Burned