I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
A hot stake is better than a cold chop.
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
Challenging American leadership is not at stake.
The American people. . . have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.
I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools are always disturbed by the blessed fools. They had to murder him because his very presence was uncomfortable; his very presence was such a pinnacle of peace, love, compassion and light, that all the learned fools became aware that their whole being was at stake. If this man lived then they were fools, and the only way to get rid of this man was to destroy him so they could. again become the learned people of the race.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake. . . spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
When the Champions League is at stake,. . . you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.
Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth. )
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Most comics are not truly rebellious or creatively free. Most comics, paintings, music, etc. , are derivative of other, more successful works. And it's quite often that those without much rebellious spirit are the ones to imitate it. Genuine radical expression is hard to come by, but it usually crops up when money is not a motivating factor. You can take all the liberties you want when someone else's dime is not at stake. The validation is not a threat to comics. A far greater threat to the creative freedom of artists working in any medium is self-consciousness and self-censorship.
So do you remember this place?" "Hard to forget. " he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much.
[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you. ” Then I plunged the stake into his chest.
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.
History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.