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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. — Henry A. Kissinger

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. — Laurence J. Peter

A hot stake is better than a cold chop. — Curly Howard

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

We're reducing the number of high-stakes tests from fifteen to five. — Ken Robinson

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. — William Empson

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. — Thomas E. Mann

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames. — Antonin Artaud

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

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most. — Alexander McCall Smith

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life — Diane Di Prima

The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision. — Louie Giglio

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality. — Al Gore

odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He — Peter Benchley

Defiance was only amusing when the stakes were low. — Courtney Milan

When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes. — Mathias Dopfner

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead. — Dave Foley

Unless you stake your life, life will not be won. — Werner Heisenberg

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake. — Clinton Rossiter

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum. — Derek Jarman

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. — Julian Clary

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

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. — Steven Seagal

Broadway will give any beggar a cup of coffee and a sandwich, but it demands persistence of those who go after the big stakes. — Napoleon Hill

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport. — Barbara Jordan

The reality is the stakes are very high. If your industry is targeted or your company is sued in a class action, your legal costs will soar. — Jonathan Friedman

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental - far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. — Franz Grillparzer

I feel like a tent that wants to be a kite, tugging at my stakes. — Abigail Thomas

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that. — E.L. Konigsburg

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. — JoAnn Ross

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

One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with wooden stakes. — J.H

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity. — Horatius Bonar

Sadness and anger aren't vampiric. If you let them, they'll follow you around the world, sunshine and stakes be damned. — Karina Halle

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high. — Seth Gordon

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. — Sol LeWitt

The heels reminded me of the silver stakes Eddie and Rose used to kill Strigoi. — Richelle Mead

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames. — Joan Of Arc

Half of me (pathetically) wanted to let him know I'd kept the faith; half of me wanted to get in the toolshed and sharpen me some stakes. — Charlaine Harris

Became clear that there were no high-stakes life-insurance — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E.W. Howe

I'm sorry if you think I've played Judas. But I never agreed to play this game for these stakes, — Stephen Lloyd Jones

For hunter it's just a meal, but for the prey it's a matter of life and death! -- Same game, different stakes! — Poornima Dhiman

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third. — Heather Brewer

Politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower. — Geraldine Ferraro

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable. — William Hedgcock Webster

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes. — Ani DiFranco

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience. — Norbert Leo Butz

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood. — George Ade

After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time. — Steve Donoghue

People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes. — John Krasinski

Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I'll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game. — Pippa DaCosta

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn. — Brian K. Vaughan

Hundreds of prayer cloths were tied around rocks and stakes all the way up the mountain, but God had failed here. — Alwyn Hamilton

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker. — Mary Karr

But there are higher stakes than youth or Latah, games where only two players in the world know what the stakes are. — William S. Burroughs

Temptation is temptation." Lucy flipped another
page, her reading intent and steady. "No matter what the stakes. — Luke Taylor

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground. — George Herbert

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God! — Sheila Walsh

Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case? — Peter Lorre

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

He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. — Hermann Hesse

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off. — Jamie Carragher

A married man turns his staffe into a stake. — George Herbert

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. — Frank Herbert

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about. — Rob Corddry

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time. — Sophie Wu

The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat. — Henry Kissinger

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes. — Channing Tatum

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all. — Lori Wilde

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board). — Jerome K. Jerome

It was easier to tell hero from villain when the stakes were only life and death. Everything in between gets harder. — Maggie Stiefvater

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon! — Edmond Rostand

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized. — Barbara Delinsky

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. — Hillary Clinton

When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake. — R.C. Sproul

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes. — Ratan Tata

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

I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter. — Corey Taylor

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart. — Barack Obama

There's no time to waste on regrets, Love said. There is only time to live the way you would have, had you known the stakes from the start. — Martha Brockenbrough

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. — Sarah Cross

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. — William Landay

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. — Barack Obama

The next time, Mr. Potter, that you choose to escalate a contest rather than lose, you may lose all the stakes you place on the table. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever truly done
For Heaven and the future's sakes — Robert Frost

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled. — Pittacus Lore

When the stakes are high, bow down low. — Beth Moore

Sundays had a candid feeling. There were no laws, no stakes. — Stephanie Danler

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition. — Ian Fleming

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper. — C.S. Lewis

Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves. — Natasha Lyonne

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

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be. — Robert Downey Jr.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. — Warren Buffett