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Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. -- William Empson
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. -- Barack Obama
When the stakes are high, bow down low. -- Beth Moore
Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. -- Martin Luther
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood. -- George Ade
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. -- Hannah Arendt
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. -- Martin Luther
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
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. -- Catherine Fahringer
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. -- J. Donald Walters
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do. -- Sam Harris
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 to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization. -- Henry Hazlitt
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. -- Louie Giglio
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them. -- Woodrow Wilson
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. -- Virginia Woolf
The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build schools. The minds that coordinate the activities of violence can coordinate the activities of cooperation. When the activities of life are infused with reverence, they come alive with meaning and purpose. -- Gary Zukav
The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce. -- John Eliot
For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn. -- Og Mandino
Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes. -- Graham Goode
After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time. -- Steve Donoghue
Big stories need human stakes. -- Aaron Swartz
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes. -- Ratan Tata
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. -- Julian Clary
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. -- Frank Herbert
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business. -- Alex Berenson
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized. -- Barbara Delinsky
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. -- Steven Seagal
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 them. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low. -- David Rakoff
I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher. -- Todd Phillips
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options. -- Nathan Myhrvold
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake? -- Amy Chua
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 make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone. -- Ian Somerhalder
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski. -- John C. Reilly
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 too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. -- Scott Thompson
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 that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard. -- Hanna Rosin
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 American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. -- James Surowiecki
I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes. -- Whitney Cummings
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 it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. -- Chris Hadfield
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 to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two. -- Frans de Waal
Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble. -- Dennis Miller
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. -- Ian Fleming
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. -- William Landay
My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day. -- Hank Phillippi Ryan
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. -- Laurence J. Peter
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes -- Julian Clary
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. -- C. S. Lewis
There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good. -- Deborah Kaplan
The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport. -- Barbara Jordan
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames. -- Antonin Artaud
The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision. -- Louie Giglio
I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter. -- Corey Taylor
Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high. -- Jacob Ruppert
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small -- Henry Kissinger
I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. -- William Shakespeare
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. -- David Foster Wallace
In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles. -- Jay Roach
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience. -- Hillary Clinton
If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience. -- Norbert Leo Butz
When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes. -- Mathias Dopfner
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you. -- Terry Pratchett
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes. -- Lauren Oliver
Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves. -- Natasha Lyonne
The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law! -- Evan Bourne
People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes. -- John Krasinski
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. -- Thomas Fuller
The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. -- Warren Buffett
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. -- JoAnn Ross
We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. -- Sarah Cross
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. -- Winston Churchill
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum. -- Derek Jarman
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high. -- Seth Gordon
politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. -- Alanis Morissette
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. -- Thomas E. Mann
I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes. -- Channing Tatum
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. -- Sol LeWitt
Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board). -- Jerome K. Jerome
If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third. -- Heather Brewer
You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled. -- Pittacus Lore
In her first game of high-stakes diplomatic poker, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leaving the table dressed only in a barrel. -- Tim LaHaye
I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life -- Diane di Prima
For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster. -- Michael Boatman
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. -- Ralph Neas
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. -- Thomas E. Mann
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. -- Ralph Neas
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose. -- Carla Gugino
When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time. -- Sophie Wu
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker. -- Mary Karr
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
A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most. -- Alexander McCall Smith
People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country. -- Zephyr Teachout
The reality is the stakes are very high. If your industry is targeted or your company is sued in a class action, your legal costs will soar. -- Jonathan Friedman
When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds. -- Miyamoto Musashi
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 future's sakes -- Robert Frost
The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops. -- Douglas Brinkley
I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. -- Sean Parker
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. -- George Herbert
I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility. -- Aaron Lazar
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent. -- Marilyn vos Savant
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character. -- F. Paul Wilson
We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand. -- Henry L. Stimson
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 or an action movie. -- Will Patton
The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional malpractice on a regular basis. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher. -- Brad Alan Lewis
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher. -- Conor McPherson
When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama. -- James N. Frey
I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher. -- Conor McPherson
Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game. -- Sidney Sheldon
the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking. -- Lauren Bacall
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him. -- Albert Einstein

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