Top 401 Stakes Quotes & Sayings

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

Satisfaction is a major player in the happiness stakes.

I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

Big stories need human stakes.

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You're fighting for your life, or you're dealing with personal stuff. It has really high stakes attached to it, and there are green screen and explosions. You're going out on these really cool locations.

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

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

'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?

As far as I'm concerned, the stakes are always very high. Whether it's playing at the White House or playing for a group in my own house - you know, one of those soirees I play in. Once I start playing, the stakes are somehow higher, in a way, than any of the context.

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

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

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

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

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

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

Every fight means everything. I have to stay focused no matter how high the stakes are or how low the stakes are, you have to stay focused and follow the game plan. At the end of the day it is going to be you and that guy in the ring and it's who wins the game will win the fight. That's what I learned.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

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

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.

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

The stakes are high in politics.

Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.

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

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

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

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

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

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

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

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

People make just as many mistakes when the stakes go up, maybe more.

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

My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.

'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp what type of film this is.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

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

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

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

Are you armed?" Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No." "Lie to me again and I'll put you out on the street and do this myself." Claire swallowed. "Uh, yeah." "With what?" "Silver-coated stakes, wooden stakes, a crossbow, about ten bolts . . . oh, and a squirt gun with some silver-nitrate solution." He smiled grimly at the dark windshield. "What, no grenade launchers?" "Would they work?" "I choose not to comment.

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

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

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

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

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.

In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law!