Top 45 Stacked Quotes

The deck is stacked against Obama.

We don’t want to tell young girls and boys that the odds are stacked against them from the start. Instead, we could tell them that with passion, conviction, and determination we can build a better future. This future is possible by redesigning our economy to truly reward hard work rather than wealth.

I personally don’t like guys who are super-muscly and stacked and overdo it in that way. Having a natural, healthy body is the best. It doesn’t mean you have to be a certain size, because everybody’s different.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that’s stacked against them.

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I’m not really sure why Harper’s concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs.

If there’s 10,000 little boys racing around the world and there’s only 10 girls, best case 100, the numbers are stacked massively against us. If you don’t increase the talent pool of young girls, you’re not going to get the best drivers at the top.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable – say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls – I wouldn’t go there. An ‘idea,’ especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

In fights when I’ve had the odds stacked against me, I definitely perform better because it’s like a challenge to me – and I always like a challenge.

For as much as I tend to run my mouth sometimes, I would have definitely stacked up better in the 1970s or the 1980s when there wasn’t as much media or there wasn’t as much publicity and sponsorship around the sport that you had to be PC for.

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the ’60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state – so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we’d have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.

Where is it written that a smart woman can’t also be stacked?

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There’s not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There’s no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.

‘Weary Willie’ is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He’s content to make out with what he’s got. He knows he’ll go no further.

Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He stacked his cabinet full of Goldman Sachs guys.

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that’s wrong.

I also often hear people say that the deck is stacked against them because of racism, sexism, or other oppressive ‘isms.’ But once you let go of the blame and excuses, you’ll see that you can alter your position on your own.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, ‘Don’t move, don’t twitch, don’t do anything,’ without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine.

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?

In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club’s request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 – just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.

Some bailiffs were tacking on extra charges left, right and centre – a fee for every letter they sent, extra fees for visiting your house, for clamping your car, seizing it, towing it and selling it. It all stacked up and people in debt had no choice but to pay. We have put an end to this.

Baidu’s AI is incredibly strong, and the team is stacked up and down with talent; I am confident AI at Baidu will continue to flourish. After Baidu, I am excited to continue working toward the AI transformation of our society and the use of AI to make life better for everyone.

Most entrepreneurs are very gut driven – they have to be because the odds and data are often stacked against them. If your gut says something is the right thing to do, then do it.

I’m a massive fan of Didier Drogba, I love the way he plays. He’s not as stacked as me but he’s strong and he’s still scoring goals. I’m a fan of Diego Costa as well. I think he crosses the line at times but I like the fact he doesn’t allow himself to be bullied.

Bald guys have been playing the bad guy for a long time, whether it’s pirates, thieves, murderers, or whatnot, so the deck is a little bit stacked against you in that regard.

I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There’s a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

Casino games such as roulette, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines and so on, are stacked in favour of the house.

I was so dedicated to generating income to keep my family housed and clothed and schooled. That mattered to me. And playing good golf mattered to me. The rest of the things, like how my record stacked up against others, never made that much difference.

The biggest auditions can be the most freeing. The odds are always stacked against you and you always expect someone famous to get the part, so it eases the pressure.

As an employer, we’re not – let’s face it: most of us don’t employ men as nannies. Most of us don’t. Now you can call that sexist; I call that cautious and very sensible when you look at the stats. Your odds are stacked against you if you employ a man.

I aspire to be a role model for women to pursue their dreams no matter what odds are stacked against them.

When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

I think I’d like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I’m from Miami, which wasn’t getting looked at at the time. Three, I’m Cuban. But now, I’ve made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

Everything is so much more stacked than it was even five or 10 years ago. There are so many more good players, so many solid players. The level doesn’t really drop from around 100-500. It’s really tough to make it, but I just have to work as hard as possible.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

But history shows that when courts intervene because a president is trying to shield his own conduct, the deck is stacked against him.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.