Quotes About Stakes

If learning is crucial, then as the stakes go up, decision-making quality is likely to go down.

He decided to raise the stakes. "I agree with much of what Brother Hildred says," he began. In an argument it was always wise to show respect for your opponent: people disliked antipathy.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

I like writing teen characters because they're vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

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.

High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

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.

Listen, old goat, today doesn't matter and tomorrow doesn't matter. It's the end of the game that counts and how many chips you've got in your pocket -- if you're still playing.

Now, what makes one of your conversations crucial as opposed to plain vanilla? First, opinions vary. For example, you're talking with your boss about a possible promotion. She thinks you're not ready; you think you are. Second, stakes are high. You're in a meeting with four coworkers and you're trying to pick a new marketing strategy. You've got to do something different or your company isn't going to hit its annual goals. Third, emotions run strong.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked "Bet Here," but only one window with the legend "Pay Out."

Love was the same way. The higher the stakes, the more impossible the odds, the more eager she was to up the ante. It was the one thing the two sisters had in common.

It seems like everyone I know has very strong feelings about which boy is the best fit for Katniss, but also because the books themselves contain a commentary on the way audiences latch onto romance, even (and maybe especially) when lives are at stake.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Poker, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

The heels reminded me of the silver stakes Eddie and Rose used to kill Strigoi.

When the stakes are the biggest is when the challenges to focus can be the most difficult and the most costly.

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.

Two years ago if a vampire bothered someone I just went out and staked the son of a bitch. Now I had to get a court order of execution. Without it, I was up on murder charges, if I was caught. I longed for the good ol' days. There

Dan: We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high and humanity is so close to the edge... Rorschach: Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive there if you observe rules: Just hang on by fingernails... and never look down.

I knew I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were. It was all right with me.