Stake Quotes - page 9

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake. (Dana Spiotta)
CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent. View quote
Floyd Abrams
For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare. View quote
Gail Collins
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. View quote
J. D. Hayworth
In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground. View quote
Jeff Raikes
... Ivy's COOK THE STEAK, DON'T STAKE THE COOK apron... View quote
Kim Harrison
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. View quote
Leopoldo Lopez
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live. View quote
Louie Giglio
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 few weeks... View quote
Luis de Guindos
Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake. View quote
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players. (Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck)
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. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here. View quote
Mike Johanns
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. View quote
Marie Rutkoski
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government. View quote
Naveen Jain
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague. View quote
Paul O'Grady
Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are. View quote
Pearl Cleage
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
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. View quote
Rickie Lee Jones
Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake. View quote
Roger Mahony
The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story. (Rory Kennedy)
It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect your jobs, 60 seconds to protect the services your family relies on. A lot is at stake during those 60 seconds. View quote
Ross Kemp
Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered. View quote
Sam Richards
The eventual survival of the tradition is ultimately not at stake. View quote
Charles Rosen