Stakes Quotes

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

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.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

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.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

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 were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

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.

It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.

When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy.

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

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.

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.

There is more at stake here than just our lives. It is the lives around us.

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law!

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.

If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

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.

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.

Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.

What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

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.

We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

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.