Stakes Quotes - Page 33

• I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Play, Noble

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• If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

  David Mitchell

  Powerful, Lying, Giving

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• The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Men, Doe

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• This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

  Cormac McCarthy

  War, Games, Unity

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Country, Moving, Love You

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• A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Peace, War

  Letter to John Taylor, June 1798.

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• 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.

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• My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. "...temper in check. She's a sweet girl," Belen said. "She's a healer, Belen. And no longer a girl. Healing Ryne is all I care about. All you should care about, as well. You know-" "Yes, I know what's at stake." Belen spat the words. "But if you raise your hand to her again, I'll rip your arm from its socket.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Girl, Sweet, Rip

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.42, MIRA

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• For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Nothing To Lose, Loses

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.9, A&C Black

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• Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

  Sam Harris

  School, Men, Our World

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Determination, Business

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• To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Pain, Disappointment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sports, Way, Emergencies

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• 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.

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• Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

  Michael Ramsey

  Faith, Attitude, Mean

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• 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.

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• It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Evil, Abortion

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• Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Luck, Raises

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• I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

  Martin Buber

  Knowledge, Learning, Adventure

  "Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1971.

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• When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Differences

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• The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hard Work, Mean, Civilization

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce.

  John Eliot

  Success, Meaningful, Sports

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• Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

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