Stakes Quotes

523 Stakes quotes by 440 unique authors

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity. — Horatius Bonar
One thing vampire children are taught is, never run with a wooden stake. — Jack Handey
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. — Rudolf Virchow
I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete… — Unknown Author
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do,… — Larry Brooks
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. — Carl Jung
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in… — Thomas Huxley
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a… — David Foster Wallace
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. — Kevin Costner
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the… — Margot Wallstrom
A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter… — Kevin Rudd
That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes… — Barack Obama
All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake. — Norman Cousins
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests… — David Suzuki
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the… — Al Gore
The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote,… — Kumi Naidoo
It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen… — Kenneth Patchen
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay… — Thomas Paine
With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time.… — Donald Keyhoe
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter… — John Facenda
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read.… — Frederick Busch
Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway. — Meg Ryan
I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake — Rose McGowan
The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be. — Robert Downey, Jr.
Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how… — America Ferrera

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