Top Stake Quotes
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
Henry Norris Russell
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
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
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?
Leelee Sobieski
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Walter Reisch
Roger Mahony 
Elizabeth Dole 
Alberto Fujimori 
J. D. Hayworth 
Franz von Papen 
Thomas Gold All Stake Quotes
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 burned at the stake.
Thabo Mbeki 
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You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.
Michael Tilson Thomas
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
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In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Thomas Gold
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Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
Elizabeth Dole
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We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
Maria Cantwell
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Popular Stake Authors
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Floyd AbramsMike JohannsPenelope SpheerisGarry ShandlingRobert B. ParkerJ. D. HayworthLarry KingBrad HenryMichael Tilson ThomasDennis EckersleyThabo MbekiMichel PatiniMary Chapin CarpenterJean GiraudouxJon Voight
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