Stakes Quotes - Page 18

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Worry, Culture

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• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

  Norman Douglas

  Issues, Political, Society

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

  John McCain

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere - modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism.

  Savitri Devi

  Christian, Religious, Dark

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

  E. W. Howe

  Hate, Wonder, Martyr

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• Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

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• Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

  Andre Gide

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Games, Bridges, Romance

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• I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

  Ian Fleming

  Ambition

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• An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Couple, Law, Impossible

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• So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Careers, I've Learned

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• The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

  James Cromwell

  Animal, Years, Healthy

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• To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

  Lois Gibbs

  Children, Moving, Winning

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• Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Writing, Men

  "Rachel Kushner: The Useless Truth". Interview with Jonathan Lee, www.guernicamag.com. February 17, 2014.

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• To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

  Eleanor Clark

  Artist, Firsts, Sides

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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

  George P. Shultz

  World, Common, Terrorist

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• My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.

  David Parnas

  Stars, War, Believe

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• What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

  Ted Cruz

  Strong, Character, Thinking

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• 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

  Relationship, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

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• If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Responsibility, Helping, Audience

  "Norbert Leo Butz and the root of evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  Billy Crudup

  Play, People, Certain

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• Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

  Frank Carlucci

  Moving, Iran, United States

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• The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

  Robert Capa

  Horse, War, Hands

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.161, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  Ira Glass

  Issues, Interesting, Burning

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck.

  Jeff Gordon

  Winning, Guy, Riding

  "Daytona Duel: Race two winner's press conference". www.motorsport.com. February 16, 2007.

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