Stake Quotes

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy. The future of the euro is at stake in the next weeks.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.