Stake Quotes

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

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

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

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

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

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.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

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

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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