Stakes Quotes

523 Stakes quotes by 440 unique authors

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having… — Damian Lewis
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. — Martin Luther
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake. — Simon Mainwaring
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. — Naguib Mahfouz
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… — Thabo Mbeki
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… — John Mayer
The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal.… — Christopher Meloni
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher. — Alanis Morissette
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life?… — Nathan Myhrvold
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. — Ann Oakley
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the… — Barack Obama
I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and… — Todd Phillips
I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try… — Chris Pratt
That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up… — John C. Reilly
The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up… — Eric Ries
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of… — Tom Robbins
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia… — Kevin Rudd
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… — Henry Norris Russell
President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in… — Paul Ryan
America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world. — Rick Santorum
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. — Friedrich Schiller
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. — Steven Seagal

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