Stake Your Claim Quotes

#1. Friendly advice. Next time, get your head outta your ass and stake your claim. My body

Kristen Ashley

#2. When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

Philip Gulley

#3. I should stalk over there and pee around his table to stake my claim. Wait ... what? Jeez, Kacey.

K.A. Tucker

#4. Stop letting everyone else tell you what's wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. I've been losing me for a while
my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I've been
and further away from the person
I'd like to be.

R H Sin

#6. Although we cannot change the past, we can stake our claim on it and make it ours. We can know for ourselves where we have been and use that wisdom to build our future.

Ashley Warner

#7. The Rabia Balkhi, registered to Captain Eric Khan out of Pallas, was still just goods and people heading into the frontier to stake a claim. Fewer horses, maybe, but more fusion reactors.

James S.A. Corey

#8. Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

Michael Moorcock

#10. What I think happened to the new arenas is that you need some memories. I remember going when the Staples Center first opened and it was like, 'OK,' but a couple championships later, and all of a sudden it becomes your house. You have to stake claim to it.

Kevin Connolly

#11. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

Maya Angelou

#12. Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents

Isaac Bonewits

#13. She was mine. Didn't she know that? Because my body was screaming it - demanding me to stake my claim on her.

Wendy Higgins

#14. Weber's achievement was not to definitively answer a riddle but to stake out a territory fertile of new puzzles at the heart of which is the claim that religious forces, not simply economic ones, paved the way for the mentality characteristic of modern, Western capitalism.

Max Weber

#15. His eyes sparkled again, and in that instant I felt a strong urge to get up and leave him behind. I had been wrong to think what Sean and I had was special. He wasn't 'the one'. He couldn't be. 'The one' would never leave me behind.

J.C. Reed

#16. From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized.

Erwin McManus

#17. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

Meryl Streep

#18. The Main Street is wide, ridiculously wide, as though when it was built, the town was expecting something amazing to arrive, a thousand people to stake their claim to a patch of soggy green land, a huge boat, Titanic-size, on the back of a truck.

Karen Foxlee

#19. Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Joyce Meyer

#20. Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

Rachel Kushner

#21. It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music.

Ray Toro

#22. Are farmers and they keep trying to breathe, keep the body moving to keep the soul from atrophying. Mama cries when she strings

Ann Voskamp

#23. I didn't exactly give you a choice, seein' as you were playing games, fuckin' another guy and I needed to stake me claim. I did, I'm here, I'm stayin'.

Kristen Ashley

#24. It does no good to stake a claim on someone's heart. Unless they give it to you, it isn't yours to take. All you can do is share your heart and hope she wants it. All you can do is offer it and hope she takes it. All you can do is love her and hope to God she finds a way to love you back.

Katy Regnery

#25. I could love you, I could kill you. I want this. This is how I make my mark, this is where I plant my flag, this is how I stake my claim, this is how I deny you, this is how I claim you, this is what you owe me, this is what I am taking, this is how I know I'm alive.

Louise Dean

#26. You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

Brad Pitt

#27. When people die, their handwriting dies too. You don't think about that.

Maria Semple

#28. Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

Andre Malraux

#29. Stake a claim on love. Believe in God.

Elizabeth B. Knaus