Stakes Quotes - Page 26

• 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

  Writing, Character, Scare

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• 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

  Cancer, Wake Up, Frail

  "Joni Eareckson Tada, Husband: Cancer 'Bruising of a Blessing' On Our Marriage". Interview with Stephanie Samuel, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Law, Painful Death, Punishment

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• Without sounding too grandiose, the survival of the planet itself is at stake, you have rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, immigration sparked by climate change, droughts that are much more severe.

  Laurent Fabius

  Change, Ocean, Sea

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• Our doctrinal obligation is to our own ancestors. This is because the celestial organization of heaven is based on families. The First Presidency has encouraged members, especially youth and young single adults, to emphasize family history work and ordinances for their own family names or the names of ancestors of their ward and stake members. We need to be connected to both our roots and branches. The thought of being associated in the eternal realm is indeed glorious.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Names, Organization, Roots

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• 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.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Memories, Emotional

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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

  Character, Suspense, Viewpoints

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• People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people was at stake. And we (the USA) had to threaten the other super power with retaliation to prevent it from doing something to us. Today we live in a world in which a lot of things are in flux. That creates a lot of fear. But it is also a time of great opportunity. And I would call on today's statesmen to not allow their thinking to be directed by fear.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.

  George Soros

  Issues, Faces, Sometimes

  "'You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz and Thomas Schulz, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2011.

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• These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Upset, Legacy

  Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.

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• I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

  Wes Craven

  Thinking, Want, Dice

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humanity, Survival, Species

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy).

  Madeline Miller

  Jobs, Sex, Grief

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, and stuff like that. So I started reading tons of religious texts and checking everything out. One of the things I wanted to make sure of on the record is that it still has a "searching" vibe rather than an authoritative vibe.

  Mason Jennings

  Religious, Reading, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

  Alex Jones

  Children, Criminals, Would Be

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Creating, Space

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, Harvard Business Press

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• The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like that. You and you partner have to do everything and that's kind of like facing the blank page as a writer.

  Carol Higgins Clark

  Character, Writing, Class

  "Mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark on her successful career and teaming with her famed mom to bring their popular characters to TV". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, War, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.

  Robert Iler

  Careers, Decision, Trouble

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• I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

  Donna Murphy

  Thinking, Needs, Want

  "Donna Murphy Exclusive Interview TANGLED" by Bill Graham, collider.com. November 25, 2010.

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• It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game - and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us.

  Arsene Wenger

  Champions League, Games, Way

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• You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Thinking

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

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

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Sorrow, Prayerful

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• It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.

  Sergio Martinez

  Hurt, Motivation, Boxing

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