Stakes Quotes - Page 31

• It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Fighting, Emotion

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Strong, Inspiration, Exercise

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• Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Believe, Writing, World

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Dec 11, 2012

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• Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.

  Michel Foucault

  Fashion, Memories, Party

  Michel Foucault (2013). “History of Madness”, p.6, Routledge

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• The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Dad, Punishment

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• I do not think I exaggerate when I say that some of us put our offering in the plate with a kind of triumphant bounce as much as to say: "There - now God will feel better!" I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare at stake in such matters as these. You have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Feel Better, Thinking

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

  Amitav Ghosh

  Government, Well Being, Wells

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

  Corey Taylor

  Karma, Heart, Dark

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• Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Stupidity, Underestimate, Wealth

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• At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

  Anna Funder

  Our Love, Who We Are, Remember

  Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Differences, Interesting

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.109, Macmillan

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

  Lord Acton

  Absolutism, Lost, Rejoice

  Letter to Robert E. Lee, November 4, 1866.

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• I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

  David Walker

  Fire, Tree, May

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• We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

  Kevin Costner

  Success, Needs, Attention

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• Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Religious, Atheism, Charity

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• Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

  Thomas Sowell

  Decision, Liberty, Outcomes

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• As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you... And as to the curs which will bark and yelp - you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead - I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Science, Annoyed

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• The friends that have it I do wrong
  Whenever I remake a song,
  Should know what issue is at stake:
  It is myself that I remake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Song, Issues

  "The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats". Book by W. B. Yeats, 1908.

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• You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Vanity, Fiction

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “The David Foster Wallace Reader”, Hachette UK

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• Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Simple, Kyoto Protocol, Issues

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• A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Opportunity, Australia

  "Australia's apology in full". www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Laughter

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspiring, Being Real, Realizing

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• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Struggle, Democracy, Slavery

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