Best Stakes Qoutes
523 Stakes quotes by 440 unique authors
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Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older,…
— Charles Dickens
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Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that…
— Terrence McNally
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in…
— Jonathan Culler
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At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father…
— Pope Francis
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The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
— C.S. Lewis
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Never love someone whom you think you need to mend – or who makes you feel like you should be mended. There are boys out…
— Caitlin Moran
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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…
— Will Patton
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As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
— Kerry Washington
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Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve…
— Chris Hadfield
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We can't say that we believe in each other’s fundamental humanity and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each others existence and…
— Kerry Washington
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I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I…
— Rickie Lee Jones
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With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what is at stake.…
— Mary Ann Glendon
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In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never…
— Thomas Paine
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was…
— Dallas Willard
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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her…
— Norman Douglas
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I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the…
— John McCain
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Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and…
— Savitri Devi
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Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.
— E. W. Howe
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Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
— William Shakespeare
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not…
— Andre Gide
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Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
— Ian Fleming
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An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible…
— Louis de Bernieres
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So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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