Quotes About Stake

Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

What? What's so funny? Some idiot tried to put a stake through your heart, and he didn't even hit the darn thing! For which I am grateful. And I am even more grateful that you rescued me. I did not like being imprisoned and in such pain.

Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes...

Would one vampire stake another? This was not a question I wanted answered the hard way.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it's the underfunding of education or health care, and all these issues which accentuate the poverty of Canada's indigenous people, and the lack of reaction to them - it becomes clear that if Canadians understood what's at stake, they wouldn't stand for it.

If you don't risk anything you risk everything

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.

When family and friends go to Everton, they tell me that there's a moment when I get the ball, and fans get to their feet in anticipation. There's so much at stake that people live under permanent pressure.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

Aspiration, opportunity, and a stake in society are things which combine education, decent healthcare and the fruits of a capitalist system where individuals contribute to society, while also pursuing their natural inclination to improve their lot in life.

As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

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.

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.

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

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.

Skills that are employable or marketable, education, having a stake or meaningful role in society, not being marginalized - all of those things are very important.

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.