Top 1200 Burning At The Stake Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.

You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.

A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.

Let me be clear: It's not that I'm not a patriot because I want to keep flag-burning legal, it's that I want to keep flag-burning legal because I am a patriot.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in.

Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

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

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

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

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.