Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
You are a powerhouse of creativity; you were born magnificently expressive, available and aware. Before you had the words for it, you had an intrinsic sense of urgency because you knew down in your bones that the stakes are high.
the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.
Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.
You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.
If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.
Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.
Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.