Stake Quotes

430 quotes by 362 authors

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake. — Pope Benedict XVI
When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there Â must be no silent witnesses. — Carol Bellamy
I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the… — Lewis H. Lapham
We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We… — Eileen Collins
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,… — Carl Sagan
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our… — Barack Obama
Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it… — Anatoly Karpov
I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and… — Althea Gibson
The club that kills can drive a stake into the ground to hold a shelter. The hands that build bombs can be used to build… — Gary Zukav
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… — Bille August
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake… — Friedrich Nietzsche
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as… — Hunter S. Thompson
Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were… — A.C. Grayling
We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me… — Henry Ford II
Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach… — Alec Baldwin
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. — Leon Kass
The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which… — Oswald Chambers
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier… — Abraham Lincoln
The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the… — Josh Ritter

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