Stakes Quotes

Stakes Quote of the day

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

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.

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter.

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.

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

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.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

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.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.

Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

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.

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

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 be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

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.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

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.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.