Stakes Quotes - Page 32

• Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

  Ralph Neas

  Temptation, Due Diligence, Dues

  7 Copy quote

• We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.

  Deval Patrick

  Moving, People, Competition

  6 Copy quote

• If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

  Alain Juppe

  Choices, President, France

  "Chirac, French conservatives stung by election result". www.cnn.com. May 26, 1997.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, West, Forget

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Virginia, People, Toasters

  Source: movieweb.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Elephants

  6 Copy quote

• Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.

  John J. Raskob

  Procrastination, Men, Issues

  9 Copy quote

• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Impact, Space, People

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

  Mary McGrory

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

  6 Copy quote

• There is too much at stake to worry about our own egos. When my son was killed, I had to face the fact that I was somehow also responsible for what happened. Every American that allows this to continue has, to some extent, blood on their hands. Some of us have a little bit, and some of us are soaked in it.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Son, Blood, Hands

  "This is George Bush’s Accountability Moment". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

  Bill Richardson

  Strong, Heart, People

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Wall, Enemy, Spirit

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.66, Lulu Press, Inc

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  "'Mysterious Benedict': Solve A Puzzle, Save The World". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. March 26, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

  Natalie Portman

  Israel, Born, Position

  7 Copy quote

• There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

  Charles Haynes

  Fighting, Reality, People

  4 Copy quote

• The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Law, Forgiving

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.53, Graphic Arts Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  Camille Flammarion

  Religious, Jesus, Men

  10 Copy quote

• I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

  Clea DuVall

  Dream, Play, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Mary, Jane

  4 Copy quote

• I think there has to be a recognition that, you know, there's so much at stake now, I mean, the business has changed so much and decisions are made so quickly, in nano seconds basically.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Hard Times, Two

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

  Joss Whedon

  Halloween, Names, Vampire

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fear Itself)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

  Sarah Palin

  Rogues, Election, Should

  "Palin to Romney-Ryan: 'Go Rogue'" By Daniel Halper, www.weeklystandard.com. September 22, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheist, Ignorance, Humility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

  Thomas Reed

  Fear, Humorous, Atheism

  9 Copy quote