Stakes Quotes

523 Stakes quotes by 440 unique authors

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what. — Michael Shermer
Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that… — Ian Somerhalder
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars… — John Shelby Spong
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just… — Charles Stanley
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me… — Gertrude Stein
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. — Sting
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in… — James Surowiecki
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… — Al-Waleed bin Talal
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's… — Scott Thompson
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes… — Benicio Del Toro
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. — David Foster Wallace
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much… — H.G. Wells
Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy… — Felix Dennis
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better… — Frans de Waal
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work… — Hanna Rosin
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes. — Ani DiFranco
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.… — Rudyard Kipling
every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of… — Charles Dickens
We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the… — Spencer W. Kimball
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames. — Antonin Artaud
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when… — Mark Twain
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri… — Douglas Adams

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