Stakes Quotations

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable.

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

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.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import.

It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

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.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.

I've lived out many of the dreams I had as a little girl, back when I was riding my pony, mucking stalls, feeding cows, aspiring to finally become a professional jockey and racing in stakes races on a worldwide stage.

The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

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

I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.

Until and unless the US-Allied stakes in the strait's threatened closure can be reduced, Iran will literally think and act as if it has us over a barrel.

We are proud to offer this beefed up stakes schedule to our horsemen for our 41st-consecutive season in southwest Louisiana and feel it is certain to be the best ever.

We are seeing a lot of managers, especially those for whom valuation is really important . . . build up cash stakes that are higher than historical averages. It's something we are seeing some very good managers do right now.

What a lot of people don't realize is these tests are given in preparation for the 10th-grade GQE. That's the one with the highest stakes for individual students. They have to eventually pass that to graduate.

With the market for Portable Media Player (PMP) semiconductors essentially doubling to $6.4 billion in 2009, the stakes in the portable video-processing market are high.

Would you convict him on the basis of these lies? ... The stakes are very high: a man's life hangs in the balance and you must be very, very sure.

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

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

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

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

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

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

She travelled well for a long way and at least it was a better performance than last time. Provided she is okay, the Matron Stakes will be next for her.

She will make clear the stakes involved in this crisis, the threat posed, the diplomatic efforts we've sought to resolve this without the use of force, and the reasons why the use of force may be necessary.

Some companies have really figured out how to take customer satisfaction to the next level, and the stakes just keep getting higher.

She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.

Since Shanghai International plans to take the stakes from other shareholders in an internal deal instead of from the public market, the price will be based on their own negotiations.

One of the unintended consequences of Roe vs. Wade is it stakes everything to viability. Well, viability moves. It's changed. In 1973, viability was a whole lot later. It's been pushed back.

One thing viewers will be reminded of, the stakes are very high on this island. It's always life and death. They may have been lulled into a sense of security in the past few episodes. That may change again soon.

My goal is to hit it inside the white stakes (out of bounds markers). No matter where it is, fairway, in the trees, as long as I have a swing, I'm happy.

Now that the president has said he will nominate Judge Roberts as chief justice, the stakes are higher, ... The Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination.

Now that Roberts' nomination has been reported out of committee, we strongly urge senators to vote their conscience and reject his nomination when it reaches the floor. The stakes are too high and the consequences too great to gamble.

Obviously this was a big step up going from a maiden win right into a graded stakes but I think Bill had a lot of confidence in him and felt he truly belonged here. He still looks like he might have a few things to learn, he was kind of trying to run up on the leaders a little bit, but Edgar said when the hole opened up he had a lot of acceleration.

One thing about having success is that the stakes get higher each and every game. That's fun to be involved with here at Rutgers again. It's been a while for me personally and it certainly gets the juices flowing.

On the question of America's role in the world, the differences between Senator Kerry and President Bush are the sharpest, and the stakes for the country are the highest,

I wouldn't say that we were on top of our game, which gives us room for improvement and things to work on at practice on Monday. The stakes get tougher. You just put that behind and go after the next one.

I would be very surprised if some of these companies that have stakes in these projects don't already have their lawyers working on lawsuits.

I would expect that there's going to be a more vigorous effort to refine and clarify the choices between the Conservatives and Liberals and that's only natural, given that the stakes go up with each passing day.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

I'd like to see it. It's either a goal or it's not and at least we'd know. It would only take 15 seconds for a decision. Why not, when the stakes are so high?

I am really looking forward to the Borgata Poker Open this year. The stakes will be higher, there will be more talent, and I always enjoy the energy, atmosphere and people at Borgata. It is one of my favorite destinations on the tour.

I am raising the stakes right now, ... If this is a poker game, I am shoving my chips right in the middle of the table. I am raising the ante. Anybody who wants out, can get out. This team is going to the playoffs. OK? This team is going to the playoffs.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

I have all the respect in the world for Franklin, they are very tough to beat at home and they always play us hard. We came out a little bit sluggish, but I reminded the girls what stakes they were playing for, and they responded.

I can't even explain how it feels. This horse has taken me to my first major stakes win, my first grade I win, and now has brought me here. You can't get better than this.

Given the level of talent coming to this year's competition, we are raising the stakes and offering $25,000 to each athlete that sets a world record. We are confident that we will witness at least one record-breaking performance.

Four years ago, I didn't realize fully what I was getting myself into. It was all new to me, so after the competition I wasn't depressed about not going to the Olympics. It actually in a lot of ways feels just like this is my first time where I knew what the stakes were going in.

From my perspective, I think the stakes are just as high for Joseph, but there's still a rivalry there, so it meant something to him. But Ryan came out as the better wrestler, and I congratulate him.

If another bidder comes in the stakes could be raised on TWA to where AMR doesn't think it's worth it.

If we think a jersey is making a difference for us, then great. This time of the year the stakes are so high, it shouldn't matter what we wear.

If the stakes were the same as last year, that would be good.

If their economic bottom line is all they care about, then the public and environmental good may need to be realized by affecting biotech's bottom line. Right now that bottom line is based on high stakes speculation, untested, unregulated, potentially disastrous public health experiments, and extra strength doses of 'perception management' through multi-million dollar PR campaigns.

He is not running as a Green Party member, ... And I can tell you, Green Party members are all coming into the party saying they want to help us because they know the stakes are so big this time. It will be much more difficult for him.

He feels more a Sires or Champagne Stakes horse so I've told David (Hayes) I'll probably ride Boom Time Savings next week.

We're proposing some stakes increases and more significant increases than the prior year. If the TOC agrees to those, that will take up some of that money. I think we will take a more aggressive approach to our overnights.

Having kids changed the stakes for us in terms of putting our money where our mouths and minds had been.

He knows now how close he came ... He knows what the stakes are.

I think it really stakes the claim that I'm the champion, ... I run like a champion. I show up big when it's time to show up big.

I think the president has raised the stakes for himself. He has raised the stakes for his presidency, so that if there are more explosions in the next few months ... his approval ratings will suffer some more.

It is clear that within the party there are other people who fear the president's party is losing the battle. They fear that the president's party will be absolutely nullified by this process of transition, and it is clear they are interested in raising the stakes and showing their strength.

I think we have some capable batters. I think the youngsters are looking to put their stakes on the table, in terms of getting themselves permanent into the Jamaica team and looking to make themselves available for West Indies' selection. And having said that we have Marlon Samuels, who is a senior campaigner, and we are looking to make sure that we lead from the front and put our (big) totals on the board more often than not, and try and restrict the opposition as quickly as possible and execute efficiently.

I think this road trip is, for me, more personal. The last time we came out West, I kind of went into a slump. So I just didn't want that to happen again. The stakes are a little bit higher this time. I just want to make sure that I keep up my end of the bargain and make sure the team plays well.

I think this really stakes a claim that I'm a champion, ... I'm a competitor. If it means winning by an inch or a mile, I'm there.

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

I think we're in a better position going longer. Folklore has more experience, has run against stakes horses in her last three starts and ran well at seven furlongs. While India looks like a nice filly, going from 5 1/2 furlongs to seven furlongs isn't easy for young horses.

Our job is to make sure that the public understands the consequences of these cuts so that the people who represent them can determine whether those cuts are acceptable. ... It's going to be fairly comprehensive, fairly aggressive statewide because the stakes are so high.

Religious leaders are the trusted gatekeepers in many of these communities. The stakes for our communities could not be higher.

Passing out flyers at a shopping mall or hoping somebody sees a poster doesn't get through to today's jaded, image-bombarded, media-savvy young consumer. Street marketing is practically an old strategy now, so the stakes are much higher when it comes to getting your message across.

That certainly is part of the issue. People have stakes (in the stock market) have noticed these things. If you get to the top quarter or the top 10 percent, then these consumers have mentioned decline in stock market prices much more often.

I think he raced good. He's starting to impress me. Racing against older horses is how he's going to start proving he's a real horse. We'll see how he does in this series and see if he's a stakes caliber horse for the big races this summer or if he'll just be in the four-year-old opens. This is the test.

Johnny Quads is at the top of his field as a writer, editor and a player. His hiring means we are raising the stakes in the world of poker publishing.

Justice O'Connor has been the deciding vote in key cases protecting individual rights and freedoms on a narrowly divided court. The stakes in selecting her replacement are high,

I might have to up the stakes a little bit now.

We are delighted to have increased our ownership stake in the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. This transaction is firmly in line with our strategy to acquire and consolidate the minority stakes in hotels that we already own.

The question is whether this moment continues. Does this shape the way they see themselves as citizens and does this become part of their view of themselves as voters? And if it does it can have a lasting impact. The real stakes here are long-term.

We won't know whether it was the ground or not until we have had a good look at her. She travelled well for a long way and at least it was a better performance than last time. Provided she is okay, the Matron Stakes will be next for her.

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.