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“What about stakes in the heart?" I asked now. He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. "Anyone will die from a stake in the heart," he said. "And anyone will die if they're severely burned, including vampires.”
Susan Hubbard
“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”
Henry Kissinger“In real life, when emotions and sentiments are involved and the very continuity of life is at stake, there are no quantitative theories, linear programming, and applied mechanics available to solve those problems.”
Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon“Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.”
C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed“I have a soul of leadSo stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet“Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam“The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.”
Molly Ivins“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, I Am Number Four“It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.”
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