#stake

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#bands #drums #i #joined #made

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#child #children #conscious #everybody #existence

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#mistake

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#again #because #being #club #desired

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#classic #held #i #made #mistake

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#big #card #diplomacy #gamble #hand

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. ↗

— Sting

#death #gives #happily #life #lived

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#chiefly #composer #exposure #false #i

I've made some mistakes before. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

#i #made #mistakes #some

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite