When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174
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.
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.
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.
We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth. )
For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.