Quotes of Stake - somelinesforyou

“ We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. ”

- Maxwell Maltz

“ Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth.". ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Life in Texas is like a giant crap game, a perpetual gamble. ”

- James Albert Michener

“ Our listening interests are very different from the interests of the Central Valley or East Bay. ”

- Bruce Baum

“ Educated risks are the key to success. ”

- William Olsten

“ If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks. ”

- Unknown

“ Most successful people are people who take risks — calculated risks — but nevertheless, risks. ”

- Unknown

“ Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. ”

- George S. Patton

“ The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out. ”

- Richard Stine

“ The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle. ”

- Unknown

“ We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. ”

- James E. Burke

“ Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider. ”

- Unknown

“ I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head. ”

- Antonio Banderas

“ Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace. ”

- William Cowper

“ My work is a game — a very serious game. ”

- M. C. Escher

“ Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those. ”

- Bear Bryant

“ I think Converse is betting on it. ”

- Henry Thomas

“ If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ”

- Jonathan Aitken

“ He's made as many clutch shots as anybody who has ever played this game. ”

- Larry Bird

“ He coached a perfect game tonight, offense and defense. It was one of the best coached games I've seen in some time. ”

- Rick Pitino

“ Everyone wants to win their first game, and everyone wants it to be just like college, but it's not. ”

- Peyton Manning

“ We could make some changes. We have a game on Tuesday and the following Sunday against Arsenal so we have got some decisions to make. But the great thing is I've got a pool of players, which I can do that with. ”

- Alex Ferguson

“ What intrigues me about it is if you really want to create a dominant urban network that really stresses diversity, you combine a cable station like BET with a network television station focusing on urban markets like UPN,... It would be a very attractive venture. ”

- Robert Johnson

“ In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. ”

- Douglas Adams
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