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The deck is stacked against Obama. -- Ron Fournier
The laws are stacked for the wealthy. -- Jesse Jackson
Men have not stacked the decks against women. -- Warren Farrell
The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked? -- Padma Lakshmi
I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films. -- Kimberley Nixon
When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you. -- John Darnielle
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me. -- Benjamin Carson
When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous. -- Jello Biafra
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids? -- Seth Shostak
I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them? -- Toby Jones
I personally don't like guys who are super-muscly and stacked and overdo it in that way. Having a natural, healthy body is the best. It doesn't mean you have to be a certain size, because everybody's different. -- Marisa Miller
If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, 'Don't move, don't twitch, don't do anything,' without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine. -- Tim Howard
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue. -- Pitbull
I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. -- Mos Def
'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further. -- Emmett Kelly
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction. -- Ron Rash
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high. -- John Rhys-Davies
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know. -- Hugo Claus
The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks. -- Bill Dedman
Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me. -- Sean Combs
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. -- Linda Chavez
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. -- Walter Dean Myers
Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true. -- Ashley Wagner
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. -- Nancy Gibbs
The dice are stacked against them -- Theo Foley
The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer. -- Edward Kennedy
The days are stacked against what we think we are. -- Jim Harrison
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck. -- John D. MacDonald
Lessen the odds are stacked against you, Use Cosmic Ordering. -- Stephen Richards
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. -- Pat Riley
Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other. -- Ray Lewis
God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him. -- Kevin DeYoung
The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind. -- Kool Moe Dee
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet. -- Laird Barron
Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it -- Damian Lillard
She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her. -- Markus Zusak
Together, we created the STACKED brand and have really taken the product up two or three notches. -- Tim Page
I'm just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other. -- Twiggy
Let's have a look at your paperwork," I said as I glanced at the neatly stacked formsMr. Crocker." -- Denise Grover Swank
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me. -- Benjamin Carson
Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116 -- Darren Shan
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas. -- Waylon Jennings
Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top, -- Hillary Clinton
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you. -- Adam Rex
In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game. -- John Ensign
Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade. -- John Updike
He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy. -- Katherine McIntyre
Being rich is not how much is stacked in your bank account but how much you can stack in the hands of menhow much you can give. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Being rich is not how much is stacked in your bank account but how much you can stack in the hands of men...how much you can give. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them. -- Rush Limbaugh
People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them. -- Rush Limbaugh
The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God. -- Pharrell Williams
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die. -- J. D. Salinger
Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump. -- Helen Rowland
My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky. -- Jeff Sampson
The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker. -- Hillary Clinton
Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments. -- Alan Young
Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others. -- John Baldoni
When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other. -- Charles Martin
I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life. -- Dave Grohl
If you do not know what you're doing stacked on his desk, a dozen colleagues Initially sticks with a large number of papers and pass them. In case of doubt, the way in. -- Malcolm Forbes
People aren't tidy creations to be stacked neatly in the Tupperware or poured in premeasured quantities from a box into the Cuisinart with no spills; everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess." -- Joel Derfner
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. -- Warren Buffett
It really is a choice between division or unity, between an economy that works for everyone or one that is stacked for those at the top, between strong, steady leadership or a loose cannon. -- Hillary Clinton

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