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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
— Bernie Sanders
The world is at stake, and I am going to sit here and eat breakfast!" I exclaimed and resisted him.
— Claudia Caren
It's always fire with Baz. I can't believe he hasn't incinerated me yet. Or burned me at the stake.
— Rainbow Rowell
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
Being a witch was indeed an onerous task. If people accepted us, they wanted the impossible. If they didn't, they wanted to burn us at the stake.
— Maria E. Schneider
What's wrong, queen of darkness? Someone stake your maker today?
— Katie McGarry
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
— Jack Kemp
I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.
— David Mixner
It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.
— Roald Dahl
Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.
— Kerrelyn Sparks
Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.
— Thomas H. Cook
I say we should stake him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him! (Selena)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
There was too much at stake for him not to attempt it! He had to win! And he had to win big!
— Avijeet Das
One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed
— H.W. Brands
The members of Hyperion's crew were now pigs, for a very simple reason: they all had a stake in Clark's Internet businesses.
— Michael Lewis
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
— Werner Heisenberg
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
— John F. Kennedy
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
— Lord Randolph Churchill
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
— Ernst Hanfstaengl
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
— Raymond E. Feist
There is nothing wrong with being scared. It only means that something important is at stake.
— Sarah Fine
I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!
— James Clavell
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
— Margaret Halsey
There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.
— Charles Haynes
I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
— Edmond Rostand
Oh,Angus, where's the beef?
— Kerrelyn Sparks
When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
— R.C. Sproul
What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.
— Terryl L. Givens
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
— Cesar Chavez
Life is a killer on the other side of the stake. Especially if your a vampire or a slayer.
— Heather Brewer
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
— Rudolf Virchow
At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.
— Penny Lernoux
I noticed there was garlic above the doorframe. Edwart held a stake in one hand and a 'Team Jacob' shirt in the other.
— The Harvard Lampoon
...Ivy's COOK THE STEAK, DON'T STAKE THE COOK apron...
— Kim Harrison
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
— Michael Shermer
The safety of the country is at stake ... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat ... No faltering can be tolerated today.
— Joseph Joffre
If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.
— Kirk Cameron
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
— Ira Glass
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
— Benicio Del Toro
I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."
Then I plunged the stake into his chest. — Richelle Mead
Then I plunged the stake into his chest. — Richelle Mead
I doona need drugs. I am naturally a mean bastard.
— Kerrelyn Sparks
...I'll stake my wig there's fever here.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
— Henry Norris Russell
Stop letting everyone else tell you what's wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer.
— Tahereh Mafi
You killed Violet, Anna Ruth? How'd you do it? If you didn't drive a stake through her heart, she'll come back alive.
— Carolyn Brown
But what if the promises means life and death? What about bliss? Saving your soul? If all that is at stake, then promises need to be broken.
— Anne Eliot
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
— William Shakespeare
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
— Hannah Arendt
Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.
— Ronald Reagan
If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.
— Allen West
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
— Lars Von Trier
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.
— Ludwig Boltzmann
Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.
— George Soros
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A stake or knife must be driven through the heart," said Tommy. "But a sea-vampire, Tommy," I responded, "is - is different.
— Frank Belknap Long
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
— Naguib Mahfouz
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
— Hannah Arendt
Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.
— Jim Butcher
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
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
— Catherine Fahringer
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.
— Mark Twain
Different kinds of crazy hurt in similar ways, like being stoned to death versus being burned at the stake.
— Hymn Herself
A married man turns his staffe into a stake.
— George Herbert
I actually wanted to drive a stake through your heart when you first came here, all silent and moody. But you're not so bad, after all.
— Christina Channelle
It's a fucking plastic stake, even a lightsaber from star war would have done the job better.
— Cameron Jace
When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.
— Philip Gulley
Hiring decisions are too important to be left in the hands of a manager who may or may not have a stake in the employee's success a year later.
— Eric Schmidt
If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.
— Rob Corddry
It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake
— Antonia Fraser
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.
— Leopoldo Lopez
Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
— Christopher Dodd
When others lives were at stake, Virchow's courage had no limit. That is the definition of a hero.
— Leslie Dunn
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future.
— Simon R. Green
It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.
— George Herbert
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
— Al Gore
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)
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!
— Jeaniene Frost
The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
— Martin O'Malley
In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!
— Sheila Walsh
Friendly advice. Next time, get your head outta your ass and stake your claim. My body
— Kristen Ashley
Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes ...
— L.J.Smith
Among those who were about to stake so very much on him and his bridge, or who already had, there was not one who could honestly say he knew the man.
— David McCullough
I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.
— Charlaine Harris