Stacked Quotations

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Together, we created the STACKED brand and have really taken the product up two or three notches.

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

I was so dedicated to generating income to keep my family housed and clothed and schooled. That mattered to me. And playing good golf mattered to me. The rest of the things, like how my record stacked up against others, never made that much difference.

The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

We start at a market somewhere in Guangdong Province in China. And it's packed with cages, and you'll have chickens, and you'll have ducks. You might have some other animals -- cats, dogs, turtles, snakes -- and they're all stacked in cages, and they're all spreading their germs to each other.

We stacked the middle on defense after the third quarter when we noticed that they were running inside the tackles.

When we got a franchise, the odds were pretty stacked against us, ... And now for this team to be playing in the greatest sporting event in America, it's pretty spectacular.

With what they had stacked up against them, they played pretty good.

We heard about bodies just being stacked in piles, ... The whole family's just been going crazy. She's out there somewhere.

The process to get on the ballot is Pennsylvania is a stacked deck against any non-incumbent.

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we'd have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

When the odds are stacked against you, the only way to win is to be different. You have to go against the rules that everyone is following, particularly if the rules are dishonest.

One can envision using similar technique to produce stacked thin slices of integrated circuits into 3-D systems.

Functions like night-time attendant were not yet there and there was a limit on the number of calls that could be stacked up for a particular extension. The operator consoles were also a bit primitive.

Kansas is pretty stacked this year. It was good to compete against that field.

I think it gave him some confidence and he got to see where he stacked up. He had a great year this year, and he's improved every year he's been here.

I went back around the front again and that's when you saw people stacked on top of each other trying to get out of the front door. And by then the black smoke was pouring out over their heads, out the side windows on the other side.

Our grand openings are stacked all day long with cars. It definitely creates a big buzz.

Steve (Ackerman) had a tough draw. It really was a stacked weight class.

Looking to the future, we are going to be stacked for (several) years to come.

I was, in essence, boxed in completely by keyboards. That's what was wrong; I was so stacked in with keyboards I never used that no one could ever see me. It was like being in a prison... Mick and I would laugh about it, because he had the same sensation, being stuck behind his drums all night.

I think (sending McGowan to Triple-A) would do him good because of the way the bullpen is stacked up right now. We're not coming down here with him eliminated (from the picture). But if we were to keep him with us, it would have to be a vital role.

The animals were just tied to here, there, stacked up here, stacked up on garbage there, buried under garbage here. It was pretty bad." ()

Most of my catches came over the middle, out of a three-receiver set. They stacked up once or twice. They blitzed a guy guarding me.

When the cards are all stacked against you, what do you do? You smear the victim.

You just have to be professional. We are a young team. We have to do all the little things and do our roles. We have to go out there and produce and find ways to get wins even when the cards are stacked against you.

We really attempted it in a full-force Flaming Lips behemoth production style. We recorded 100 tracks of our beloved pedal steel guitar and 100 guitar overdubs for the music, and for the vocals we stacked all these crazy harmonies. We wanted to add different layers that people might expect from us, but we tried hard not to change the fundamental nature of the song.

We had him stacked and we didn't get it. I was a good match. I'm proud of the wrestlers and their accomplishments. We're excited about going to the state tournament.

We had two chances in both overtimes to win the game. Boy, it just seems like the cards were stacked against us.

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?

We are currently estimating first-quarter US real gross domestic product growth at 5.3 per cent and feel the risks are nearly uniformly stacked on the upside.

To use a poker analogy, if the deck is a bit stacked against you, spread the deck on the table and let everyone see the cards,

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

We used those markers to ensure we had the genes required for multi-race resistance and focused our field-testing efforts on identifying superior yield performance. We stacked the deck and were able to come up with all face cards.

Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

We conducted traffic simulations on how all the traffic stacked up. Not just in summer when everyone is gone on vacation, but in the holiday season.

We do have a stacked team, and we did at the last Olympics as well. I think we'll bring home more than one medal as a team.

The reason why in construction it's particularly important is because it's very difficult for employees to be able to communicate with anybody off site. If it weren't so ridiculously difficult, under the current laws, for workers to get together to form unions, it wouldn't be as necessary as it is because the laws are stacked against workers.

We've created a world that is leading to this. The deck is really stacked against our children and not enough has been done.

This weight class is stacked all the way through. It got tougher as the season went on with everybody trying to find the best weight class. I considered dropping to 112, but had to cut too much weight. I made it down for our first match and had no energy.

This was a deep-seated fire because there is clothing, furniture and boxes stacked and packed away inside of the units. We had to pull everything out and spray it all off.

We think it's imperative they're released. They'd have a much better opportunity to find attorneys. The cards are really stacked against them.

Even though paired bases are connected by weak chemical bonds, it's the interactions that take place without chemical bonds the interactions between stacked bases that are much more important for dissipating UV energy.

Every kid in the family, besides Marvel, left the house by the age of 16. There was less stress living on our own than trying to survive in the environment we were in. I don't know how Marvel did it. He spent his time playing football, but the cards were stacked against him.

At most dealerships, the incentive system is stacked in favor of the new customers.

And we can't tell if there are graves stacked or if a body has been removed in the past.

Everything is now stacked in favor of the government. You're going to see pictures of New York City and the Pentagon you've never seen before, hear from survivors, officials in New York about the impact. What do they have on the other side?

There's no way to tell how it's going to shake out. The deck is stacked against local communities.

The rules of the game remain stacked against the competition.

The significance of these firings is that we can now take selected ST Kinetics commercially available, off the shelf warheads and combine them with our own stacked munitions technology to provide an expanding suite of explosive and less than lethal munitions. The ability to use ST Kinetics' off the shelf warheads is a major commercial step for the company. It positions us to demonstrate a range of selectable munitions in our integrated weapon systems to defense customers. We value ST Kinetics' support in achieving this outcome, and plan to utilize this range of munitions in a number of existing and planned weapon system projects. ST Kinetics' munitions are very much a key element in many of our future projects.

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

All along, Louis Farrakhan and his minions have suggested that this march will be different, that it will embrace diversity in a show of solidarity and strength. Now we see what he means. Already the sideshows surrounding this event are being stacked with noted racists and anti-Semites on the extremist fringe. One can only wonder what this portends for the main event itself.

You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated IEDs. They're using shaped charges and anti-tank mines stacked together. They're using 500-pound bombs that can destroy any armored vehicle. They're using these so-called swarming attacks, firing several RPG rounds at one lightly armored vehicle.

You're playing against a stacked deck. I think that's all we're asking for was a fair shot for our community and our kids to enjoy the euphoria that goes with a trip to the state tournament.

This is a team (Memphis) that could win a national championship, so let's make no mistake about it; who you play and where you play them is huge. We could play these guys 100 times and get closer, but we're just stacked up against us right now.

They stacked (the wagons) up from the most expensive on the bottom to the cheapest on top, and Dad had to go for the one on top.

They stacked the line of scrimmage and then spied Darren. That left nobody on the quarterback. We'll take whatever people will give us.

They put a real physical front up there with backers stacked in the box and we were still able to establish our fullback for the whole game, ... When our O-line does their job and Paul (Rios) does his, that really opens up our play-action pass for big plays. And Bennett on the outside -- he does a special job out there.

It was a tough game. Arnold came in here and tried to play a defensive game. They stacked their defense, and we couldn't penetrate in the first half.

It looks like the storms are stacked up all the way from here to Japan.

Dad went back to that Western Auto store. The wagons were still stacked the same way. He pointed to the wagon on the bottom and said to the salesman, 'That's the biggest one you have, but not the biggest one you sell, right?' The salesman told him he could order a bigger one. Dad told him get it ... and when they put me in that wagon, and you couldn't see me from under the (wood panels) on the side. ... That was what 'Blue Suede Shoes' meant to him.

The odds are stacked against the poor people who can't afford to pay an attorney in a civil case.

The odds are stacked against them. This kind of shareholder approach is likely to trigger a pretty emotional response in Korea. An attempt by a foreign fund to take control of a domestic company is likely to founder.

The odds are stacked against anybody to (win four in a row), but I think it's good for the kids to come down and be part of the conference tournament.

The odds are stacked against anybody to do that.

The odds are kind of stacked against us.

It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.

Every one of the (16) teams is stacked with talent. The teams that take the race seriously -- those who take the time and effort to check out each stage ahead of time -- will have the best success.

The two-mile was stacked with a lot of great runners. It was similar to the 1,000 in that it didn't start on a very good pace either. They went out a little too fast. Mottram is a great runner and Alistair and Daniel were right there in the hunt until the end. Alistair has had a lot of success in Boston and I think they were watching for him tonight.

Their defense is tough. We know it's going to be stacked against us, but at least we have the opportunity and the chance.

I'm trying to show how much the odds are stacked against her. You want to know something interesting? Most polls show that's the case. . . . I don't know how true it is that the No. 1 issue for women in the United States is security, and that women have polled as being more in favor of a man being in charge of the nation's security than a woman.

I personally don't like guys who are super-muscly and stacked and overdo it in that way. Having a natural, healthy body is the best. It doesn't mean you have to be a certain size, because everybody's different.

I look at the top five runner's average from this event, and Evansville Memorial was the only school to have a better average for the boys. I thought we stacked up pretty well as a team.

If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, 'Don't move, don't twitch, don't do anything,' without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine.

If you stacked regulations up, they would be about 5 feet tall, and there are so many regulations for small-business owners that half the time when they break regulations, they don't know they are doing it.

I didn't know I was injured until I began to feel the pain, and looked down at my leg and it was twisted at a crazy angle and my knee looked like it was stacked with a lot of knee caps, ... The pain was unbelievable.

I didn't know I was going to be featured. They stacked the box and the coaches left it up to the receivers to make plays down the field.

He really did deserve to go to state, but our region was so stacked in that weight class.

All false: I like gambling, the system was not cheating, and it was simple. But you're getting my side of the story here. It's my book; let those guys write their own books if they like. ... The cheaters stacked the deck, but cheaters are always the easiest people to beat.

The economics are still all stacked in the spammer's favor,

The cards were stacked against us. It wasn't going to be easy.

The final cover for 'Heroes Are My Weakness' feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

All the cards are stacked against the little guy. Filing a lawsuit isn't that expensive -- at least not to a big corporation. But if you're an artist or consumer, who can afford such a thing?