The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too,… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Willow: (on her Halloween costume): I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes. — Graham Goode Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The friends that have I do it wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo, — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
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