Stakes Quotes

523 Stakes quotes by 440 unique authors

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t… — Yann Martel
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’. — David Mitchell
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their… — Thomas Jefferson
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest… — Cormac McCarthy
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. — Hannah Arendt
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement,… — Barack Obama
Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the… — Robert Frost
A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling,… — Sherwood Smith
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. — Daniel J. Boorstin
And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks? — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As… — Martin Buber
Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms.… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 — Tom Robbins
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light,… — Ayn Rand
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the… — Anne Lamott
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the… — Emily Giffin
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His… — Terry Pratchett
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much… — W. Somerset Maugham
I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake. — Charlaine Harris
I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest. — Richelle Mead

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