Stakes Quotes - Page 15

• A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  Dana Spiotta

  Coherence, Satisfaction, Authenticity

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• Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Squad, Pressure

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.113, Penguin

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

  Julian Clary

  Personality, Rodents, Vacant

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• I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose! ... These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion!

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Christian, Teaching, Islamic

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• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Powerful, Military, War

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• Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

  Inga Muscio

  Celebration, Oppression, Gender

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• No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Husband, Father

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• Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

  Cressida Cowell

  Kings, Taken, Responsibility

  Cressida Cowell (2013). “How to Betray a Dragon's Hero”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

  Philip Gulley

  Home, Hands, Claims

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Home to Harmony”, p.63, Zondervan

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• Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

  Kristen Ashley

  Men, Feminist, Care

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• People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Believe, People, Decision

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.225, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I believe that once people really grasp what is at stake for their health and their lives, and for the health and lives of their children, they will do everything in their power to protect the living world.

  Eric Chivian

  Children, Believe, People

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• 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

  Two, Yesterday, Forever

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• It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Believe, Existence, Rational

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• When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there  must be no silent witnesses.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Rights, Silent

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• I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Distance, Reflection, Mirrors

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• The question of being is everything. Nothing could be more important or consequential-n othing where the stakes run so high. To remain unconscious of being is to remain asleep to our own reality and therefore asleep to reality at large. The choice is simple: awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Sleep, Simple

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• 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

  Fun, Play, Challenges

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• Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.

  Judi Evans

  Jobs, Nursing, Practice

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• The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . .Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.

  Julian Huxley

  Government, Years, Organization

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• I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

  David O. Russell

  Feet, Life And Death, Cinema

  Source: collider.com

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• If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Sea, Other Worlds

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture CO₂, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II. The stakes, for all life on the planet, surpass those of any previous crisis. The greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable.

  James Hansen

  War, Ignorance, Years

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• Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

  Anatoly Karpov

  Black, World, Chess

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