Top 100 Stokes Quotes
#1. A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.
Michael Makai
#2. Brasher was alone with Stokes his calling might distract her and
Michael Connelly
#3. Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.
Daniel Goleman
#4. I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.
Michael Chabon
#5. There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.
Thayer David
#6. Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes.
Nicki Minaj
#7. Stokes is running a little late this morning, ma'am. Like, an emergency, you know. Being a woman of moderate expectations, Jacqueline accepted the stumbling
Elizabeth Peters
#8. Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!
Kelley Lovelace
#10. I think musically, there's always the stuff you're into that you've always been into but every once in a while there's a new band that kind of stokes you out a little, at least for me.
Dusty Redmon
#11. Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
Rex Stout
#12. I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
Estelle Parsons
#13. The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.
Saleh Al-Mutlaq
#14. God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
Marques Houston
#15. Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry's and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying.
Ken Kesey
#16. Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge.
Ronnie Whelan
#17. Sometimes I think I'm the worst sheep of all.
Paula Stokes
#18. I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.
George Stokes
#20. With 'House Party 4,' I did it with my own money, and I sold it to New Line.
Chris Stokes
#21. You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.
I don't answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.
Paula Stokes
#22. No really, Lainey. Give it a chance. Millions of readers can't be wrong."
"That's like saying millions of boy-band fans can't be wrong," I mutter, but I flip through a few more pages.
Paula Stokes
#23. If the sun vexes you, your only recourse is to the blind yourself.
Harule Stokes
#24. I don't think you can just choose to believe in God. You either do or you don't, and no matter what camp you're in, it would take something life-changing to truly lead you into the other one.
Paula Stokes
#26. When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.
DaShanne Stokes
#27. We can't define people by their worst actions.
Paula Stokes
#28. There is something intoxicating about ending a life, about wiping bad people off the face of the earth. But it's also a dark and deadly pull. After all, who am I to decide who lives or dies?
Paula Stokes
#30. Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.
DaShanne Stokes
#31. We are not killers," Gideon says firmly.
"In my experience everyone is a killer." Baz's eyes go cold. He leans back against the wall. "Or a victim. Some people just need a little coaxing to choose a side.
Paula Stokes
#32. The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can't make smooth, no matter how hard you try.
Paula Stokes
#33. I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.
Chris Stokes
#34. There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.
Louis Stokes
#35. People are just fascinated by assassinations.
Louis Stokes
#36. What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
Carl Stokes
#37. No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.
Rose Pastor Stokes
#38. When you share feelings with someone, or secrets, it adds a layer of complexity to even the simplest things.
Paula Stokes
#39. Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.
Paula Stokes
#40. With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.
Chris Stokes
#41. If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.
Kerry Stokes
#42. Some people think they can just decree that everything will be fine. The world doesn't work like that. I'm not sure the world gives a crap about anyone's promises, well-meaning or otherwise. Sometimes the Universe just takes what it wants.
Paula Stokes
#43. Beyond the snowy trees, the endless high-rises of Seoul have faded to a blurry gray shadow, but their presence hasn't dwindled. Even in the poor visibility, there's no denying that the city feels like the walls of a fortress, a fortress that is both protecting us and trapping us.
Paula Stokes
#45. Why fight the natural order of things?"
"I guess becomes some things are worth it.
Paula Stokes
#46. But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.
Louis Stokes
#47. I study her expression, trying to memorize what love looks like, just in case things don't work out. Apparently, it looks vulnerable, like a dog that's been hit by a car. Just lying there on the pavement, waiting for you to run into the street and scoop it up in your arms.
Paula Stokes
#48. I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.
Kerry Stokes
#49. Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.
DaShanne Stokes
#50. At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.
Kerry Stokes
#51. There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.
Louis Stokes
#52. Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brown's song 'Get Away'. I told myself that I would have my own group like New Edition one day.
Chris Stokes
#53. Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.
Louis Stokes
#54. I haven't got a problem with scrutiny. If it gets hot in the kitchen, don't cook a meal. People should be able to criticise us - it's completely appropriate.
Kerry Stokes
#56. Whoever said it was better to have loved and lost was completely full of shit.
Paula Stokes
#58. In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.
Louis Stokes
#59. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.
DaShanne Stokes
#60. To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. It's ironic that making something more real involves making it less real, but Gideon always says people don't want real. They want the idea of real, which involves production.
Paula Stokes
#61. Haven't we had another climatically dysfunctional scorcher of a summer this year? Novian. Chapter 1.
Loron-Jon Stokes
#62. Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn't done anything wrong.
Paula Stokes
#63. Can you keep it all business Shelby?" he asked as he tipped her chin up. "Somehow I don't think you can.
C.W. Stokes
#64. Our "protective bubbles" - our houses, our cars, our friends, our online identities - might make us feel secure, but most of it's just an illusion. It's easy to get hurt, just like it's easy to hurt other people.
Paula Stokes
#65. Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
DaShanne Stokes
#66. Moreover, the more deeply a view is ingrained, the less likely we will see it as influencing us - or see it at all. If you want to know what water is, don't ask the fish.
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Mitch Stokes
#67. To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.
Paula Stokes
#68. Faith seems to be something people develop when their lives are going good. It's always been in short supply for me.
Paula Stokes
#69. I just decided that I wasn't going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn't afford it anyway, so I left school very early and went to work and progressively did things.
Kerry Stokes
#70. Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
Louis Stokes
#71. I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances.
Kerry Stokes
#72. I've been very lucky because Perth has been very good to me. I've enjoyed my journey and met so many wonderful people.
Kerry Stokes
#73. The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
Kerry Stokes
#74. I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.
Kerry Stokes
#75. No," Gideon says. "No guns. The most dangerous weapon you have is your brain. Give someone a gun and they tend to quit using it.
Paula Stokes
#76. Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.
Rose Pastor Stokes
#78. Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
DaShanne Stokes
#79. Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!
Rose Pastor Stokes
#80. With WesTrac, you have real people doing real jobs with real problems and real opportunities, and you touch the metal, and it's like being grounded.
Kerry Stokes
#81. When you care about someone, you can't just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.
Paula Stokes
#82. Nothing will be the same without him."
Micah nods slowly. "I know what you're saying. I guess I'm just wondering how we know when to give up and move on."
I shake my head. "Not yet. I'm not ready to quit fighting.
Paula Stokes
#83. Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.
DaShanne Stokes
#84. Where does seeking justice end and seeking vengeance begin?
Paula Stokes
#85. Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
DaShanne Stokes
#86. But if you want him, you might have to fight for him."
I let my head fall to the tabletop. "For the love of all that is dead and Chinese, please, no more fighting. This army needs a break.
Paula Stokes
#87. I go through memory after memory, looking for reassurance that nothing has changed, but it's like flipping through a book of stories I've outgrown. Everything has changed.
Paula Stokes
#88. If you have a difficult marriage, it's the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it's the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.
Kerry Stokes
#90. Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.
Kerry Stokes
#92. Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.
Louis Stokes
#93. The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
Louis Stokes
#94. Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.
Kerry Stokes
#95. Mama always said you could tell your friends from your enemies by the ones who didn't say "I told you so.
Penelope J. Stokes
#96. We are the body of Christ. We are the continuing incarnation of the Divine. Look around and see Jesus. We who believe and trust and love each other are the manifestation of God in this place, at this time.
Penelope J. Stokes
#97. It kind of sucks having nothing to lose, but it sucks even worse having everything good taken away from you.
Paula Stokes
#98. It's strange to hear myself described as someone with a big heart. I've blocked out a lot of the memories of L.A., but perhaps in some ways the girl I used to be was better than the girl I am now. Now I feel so cold, almost incapable of loving anything.
Paula Stokes
#99. I don't wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and they were subject to the times I lived in. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
Kerry Stokes
#100. Lainey is hot in a prom queen kind of way and we used to be friends back in grade school, but that was two lifetimes ago. Now she's a varsity soccer player and card-carrying popular girl who hangs out with the kind of mean girls and douchebags who get killed first in horror movies.
Paula Stokes
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