#stake

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? ↗

— Jacques Plante

#boo #goes #how #job #light

A great many people mistake opinions for thought. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

#many #mistake #opinions #people #thought

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

#fellow #his #makes #mistake #never

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. ↗

— Michael Ramsey

#attitude #being #faith #knowledge #means

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. ↗

— Walter Reisch

#aim #earth #feet #galaxies #greatest

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#beliefs #community #firm #forward #go

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#great mistakes #honest #i #know #life

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#another #atheists #begin #believer #carried

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. ↗

— Jim Saxton

#act #critical #drastic #eliminate #endangered

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#being #being honest #eight #five #fundamentally