Stake Quotes

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.