Top Stake Quotes
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
Henry Norris Russell
The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein
This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?
Leelee Sobieski
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards 
Mike Johanns 
Maria Cantwell 
Barbara Steele 
William Windham 
Frank Luntz 
Robert Capa 
Roger Mahony 
E. L. Doctorow 
Benjamin Disraeli 
Jean Giraudoux All Stake Quotes
So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
Mary Chapin Carpenter 
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One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
Thomas Reed
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Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.
William Windham
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf Virchow
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There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
Brad Henry
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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.
Leon Kass
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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Henry Norris Russell
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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
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Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake.
Franz von Papen
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