Top 1200 Burning At The Stake Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.

I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest.

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

You don't have time to think about things that aren't as important as football and the points that are at stake in the games that we have to win and do well in.

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.

Being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country.

With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

Practices for me, when your team is not going really well, it can stake a lot of stink out of the air.

The safety and security of all Americans is at stake in Ukraine and anywhere that our adversaries threaten the cause of freedom.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

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

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

When you play a semi-final, it is impossible to be tired. You know how much is at stake.

Premium hands are simply few and far between when large pots are at stake.

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system.

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

burning with curiosity

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

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

It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

When you're working in crisis situations, people have a tendency - particularly the media - to stake out your house.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.

You'll never see me go into a fight and struggle to get up for it. I understand first and foremost what's at stake.

I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

What’s burning?” “Your brain.

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

Never Again the Burning.

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

Burning is no answer.

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

My number one goal was to be the best fighter ever in the Octagon. I think I can hold hands with many who can stake that claim.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)