Staking Quotes

#1. Insides the moment Lotho stated his condition. Daemon kissed like he was staking a claim, but he already had me - all of me. My heart. My soul. My whole being.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.

A.P.

#3. So, to start with, you might be wondering how this chick with a monkey on her back about the size
of King Kong is running about staking nasties and whatnot. Well, truth be told, I've been stretching the
truth like it was a big handful of raspberry-flavored saltwater taffy.

Kathleen Tierney

#4. That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#5. Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.

Rachel Caine

#6. I'm staking out the bathroom to see if I can pick up chicks," he told her. "See? It worked.

Hailey Abbott

#7. Our wisdom grows not by staking out claims and defending them against all comers, but by sharing information freely, so that we may work together for the betterment of all.

Marie Brennan

#8. The fact that Nehru had risked his life to save a single Moslem had a profound effect far beyond New Delhi. Many thousands of Moslems who had intended to flee to Pakistan now stayed in India, staking their lives on Nehru's ability to protect them and assure them justice. In

Shashi Tharoor

#9. Why won't you let me kiss you, Anna?"
I can't breathe.
"Why, Anna?"
"It's too much," I rasp.
"Not when I want everything." He says it so deep and strong, a staking of a claim. "And I want everything with you, Anna.

Kristen Callihan

#10. It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking ... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs ... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

Graham Stuart Thomas

#11. My heart, as you well know, Bright Eyes, has always been yours for the asking. Or the staking.

Teresa Medeiros

#12. Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best ... offense. You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were ... rude.

Faith Hunter

#13. Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

Wes Anderson

#14. Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

Fran Drescher

#15. If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

John McCain

#16. There was a delicious possessiveness in the way he kissed her, as if he were staking his claim at the same time he was burning away the memories of anyone else for her. And he did. In an instant, there was nobody but him.

J. Lynn

#17. I was Carson "Joker" Steele's. End of story. He was mine too, but with a manly man biker, that was secondary. It went with the territory, hand in hand with him staking his claim. This did not bother me. It didn't trouble me. It didn't annoy me. It utterly thrilled me.

Kristen Ashley

#18. Colchester, Ash, my captain, staking my body with his cock like a conqueror, like a king.

Sierra Simone

#19. Now there's us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but
it's ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable.

Joss Whedon

#20. He sees her like I do: at seventeen, twenty, thirty. Superimposed over the fourteen-year-old, he sees the woman she'll become.
And he's staking claim.
Over. my. Dead. Fucking. Body.
And I can't die.

Karen Marie Moning

#21. Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

George Crabbe

#22. I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do. And then also I kind of had this kind of ideal of the kind of music I want to make and what I'm aiming for kind of creatively and just the quality of the music that I'm trying to make. And I have that in my head.

John Legend

#23. All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

Zubin Mehta

#24. You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.

Abbi Glines

#25. I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.

Maria Thayer

#26. I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Thornton Wilder

#27. We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.

Vladimir Lenin

#28. The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#29. Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

Sri Chinmoy