Top 51 Oakes Quotes
#1. How many do you think there are?" Stefan whispered.
"More than the fleas in my bed," Oakes answered.
Stefan glared at him. "I've been sleeping in your bed!" he hissed.
Jack Lewis Baillot
#4. How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair
No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#5. The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.
James Oakes
#6. She was learning as quickly that what was right and what must happen weren't always the same thing.
Colleen Oakes
#7. Crime is never preventable because the mind will always grow bored.
Stephanie Oakes
#8. I did not die today, so I will not fear death tomorrow.
Colleen Oakes
#9. I guess people can't be content without answers, even if they're wrong. We'd rather have a lie than a question that we can never know the answer to.
Stephanie Oakes
#11. Did he say anything interesting?" I ask. "A revelation that the Lord is reborn in a chicken nugget, maybe?
Stephanie Oakes
#12. I replay the scene again and again, the broken mashed-up face looming over me, the knowledge between the two of us that I'd done it. That act of kindness is still more unfathomable to me than any cruelty.
Stephanie Oakes
#13. My fight to live does not begin now. I have been fighting all my life, I just didn't know it.
Colleen Oakes
#14. Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I'd crack a smile he'd keep the joke going , like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that'd echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.
Stephanie Oakes
#15. We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#16. Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.
Stephanie Oakes
#17. Are you sure, V? I mean, I never want to push you to do anything your not ready to.
Tara Oakes
#18. A Florida planter defended his management practices by pointing to his slaves' "natural increase which in the last year has been over ten percent, in a gang of 120." A Georgia overseer informed his employer that with good management his plantation could produce much more cotton.
James Oakes
#19. The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#20. I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.
David Oakes
#21. I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.
David Oakes
#22. When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.
Stephanie Oakes
#23. He is the sun and the moon and everything in between.
Colleen Oakes
#24. school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice
Oakes Jeannie
#25. If the stars above saw what I felt for you, they would pour out their wonders...
Colleen Oakes
#27. I knew I was bound for something different. Something better. I was meant to rule the stars, not gaze at them from under our poverty.
Colleen Oakes
#28. Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#29. According to trend guru Faith Popcorn, change is happening exponentially faster than it ever has.
Dave Oakes
#31. It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.
Stephanie Oakes
#32. I think you should be angry if you're angry. But it's also true that hate has a way of hurting you more than the person you're hating.
Stephanie Oakes
#34. A human God. How preferable to an invisible God, I thought, one you're not even sure exists. I was never taught basic math, but by the time I figured out how to finger count, I deduced that Charlie was around my age.
Stephanie Oakes
#35. The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do everything you want, as long as they trust you.
David Oakes
#36. Tis rushing now adown the spout,
And gushing out below,
Half frantic in its joyousness,
And wild in eager flow.
The earth is dried and parched with heat,
And it hath long'd to be
Released from out the selfish cloud,
To cool the thirsty tree.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#37. I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.
David Oakes
#38. You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.
David Oakes
#39. Seventy-five percent of women think they are too fat, despite being in what is considered to be a healthy weight range.
Rachel Oakes-Ash
#40. In some of the most heavily populated slave states - South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia - between thirty-five and fifty percent of the white families held slaves in 1860.
James Oakes
#41. Anger is a kind of murder you commit in your heart." If this is true, I'm a daily murderer. My heart is more full of blood than I ever imagined.
Stephanie Oakes
#43. That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.
Stephanie Oakes
#44. Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet,
Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#45. Even after months of healing, it doesn't take much to make me bleed
Stephanie Oakes
#46. My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
#47. You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.
David Oakes
#48. Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don't anymore.
Stephanie Oakes
#50. Moments like this occurred more and more frequently, and I think that was the biggest difference between us. That we could look at the same stars in the same sky, but not have the same questions. Not want the same answers.
Stephanie Oakes
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