Stake Quotes

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned out to be quite a punch. I didn't think much of it.

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.

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.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Consolidation isn't new, though... it was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.