1.
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata
Influence and riches are not among my chief priorities.
2.
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
Barack Obama
When our priorities and convictions are put in jeopardy, we have a duty to respond.
3.
We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
Maria Cantwell
4.
The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.
John R. Rice
6.
In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.
Jeff Raikes
8.
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
Elisabeth Elliot
9.
In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!
Sheila Walsh
10.
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
Derek Jarman
11.
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
Amitav Ghosh
12.
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
Martin Buber
13.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Viktor E. Frankl
14.
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
15.
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa
16.
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes
Julian Clary
18.
We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.
Peter Russell
19.
When the stakes are high, bow down low.
Beth Moore
20.
When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.
Jamie Carragher
21.
I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
Diane di Prima
22.
I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake
Rose McGowan
23.
No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.
Clinton Rossiter
24.
The stakes are too high for us to die with a small vision.
Louie Giglio
25.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Friedrich Schiller
26.
Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.
Neal Brennan
27.
Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.
Kevin Hearne
28.
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
Khaled Hosseini
29.
When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
R. C. Sproul
30.
You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
Pittacus Lore
31.
If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.
Rob Corddry
33.
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
Joni Eareckson Tada
34.
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
Michael Shermer
35.
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.
Lord Acton
36.
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
C. S. Lewis
37.
Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
Deval Patrick
38.
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Hannah Arendt
39.
I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
Edmond Rostand
40.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Blair
41.
As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.
Natalie Portman
42.
Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.
Ralph Neas
43.
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.
E. W. Howe
44.
There is more at stake here than just our lives. It is the lives around us.
Jonathan Kent
46.
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.
George P. Shultz
48.
What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.
Terryl L. Givens
49.
Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.
Natasha Lyonne
50.
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.
Pascal Boyer