quotes about Stakes
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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 -
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 TalalSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.
-- Alisher UsmanovSource : "Alisher Usmanov 'dreams' of taking total control at Arsenal". www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2012.
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The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
-- Amitav Ghosh -
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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 -
We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
-- Barack Obama -
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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 -
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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 -
No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.
-- Clinton RossiterSource : Clinton Rossiter (1948). “Constitutional Dictatorship”, p.19, Transaction Publishers
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No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
-- Derek Jarman -
Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
-- Deval PatrickSource : Twitter post from Sep 05, 2012
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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 PrimaSource : Diane Di Prima (2007). “Revolutionary Letters”, p.7, Last Gasp
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I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
-- Edmond Rostand -
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola,
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
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Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
-- George AdeSource : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
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The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
-- George P. Shultz -
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
-- Geraldine Brooks -
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
-- Hannah Arendt -
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 -
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
-- Ian Fleming -
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
-- Indira Gandhi -
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In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.
-- Jeff Raikes -
Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.
-- John Boehner -
The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.
-- John R. Rice -
There is more at stake here than just our lives. Â It is the lives around us.
-- Jonathan Kent -
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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 -
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes
-- Julian Clary -
Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.
-- Kevin Hearne -
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
-- Lars von Trier -
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 -
The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.
-- Louie Giglio -
We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
-- Maria Cantwell -
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Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
-- Mario Vargas Llosa -
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience
-- Martin Buber -
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
-- Michael Shermer -
If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
-- Norbert Leo ButzSource : "Norbert Leo Butz and the root of evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.
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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 -
Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?
-- Peter LorreSource : "Biography / Trivia". www.imdb.com.
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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 GulleySource : Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.63, Zondervan
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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 -
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It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
-- R. C. Sproul -
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
-- Ratan Tata -
The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
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What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.
-- Terryl L. Givens -
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
-- Werner HeisenbergSource : 1969 Der Teil und das Ganze, translated by A J Pomerans as Physics and Beyond (1971).
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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 -
There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.
-- Deborah Kaplan -
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Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.
-- Neal Brennan -
I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
-- Rose McGowanSource : FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Aug 21, 2013