People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake. — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war,… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible;… — Peter Russell Copy Share Image
Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land;… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides… — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself." He offered me his arm, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down… — Tana French 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
Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very… — Noam Chomsky 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
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image