When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
Missionary work will never be what it might be without the help of the members. Stake presidents need to feel some responsibility… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about… — Madeline Zima Copy Share Image
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements,… — Tom Sutton Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'. — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the… — David Ulevitch Copy Share Image
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
We can't say that we believe in each other’s fundamental humanity and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that… — Robert McAfee Brown Copy Share Image
Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society… — Richard Stolley Copy Share Image
