Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!
When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience
In order to succeed. . . you have to put a stake in the ground.
I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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.
I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.
People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.
Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.
When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.