Craig Stokes Quotes

In all things, at all times, to all people, be consistent.

#StokesNotes ~ Craig Stokes

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. ~ Craig Ferguson

If God does not exist and there is no immortality, then all the evil acts of men go unpunished and all the sacrifices of good men go unrewarded. But who can live with such a view? Richard Wurmbrand, who has been tortured for his faith in communist prisons, says,
The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe when man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil. There is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil which is in man. The communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no Hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I have heard one torturer even say, 'I thank God, in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart.' He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflicted on prisoners. ~ William Lane Craig

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself. ~ Daniel Craig

It is the person of prayer who shakes the world. And it is when our knees hit the ground in prayer that the shaking begins. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He [Piers] might have been a goofy flake, but he was, in the end, her goofy flake, and she loved him as much as she could. ~ Craig Robertson

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't. ~ Michael Craig-Martin

Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no magic weight, no magic size, no magic number on the scale where, as soon as you hit it, confetti rains down and a band starts to play and hidden doors slide open and Daniel Craig walks through them to lift you in his arms (because, thin as you are, he totally can) and carry you into the life of uninterrupted bliss that you just know could be yours, if you only wore a size two dress. ~ Jennifer Weiner

The more you release records, in some ways it takes pressure off you. ~ Craig Finn

It is not about our world collapsing. Rather, it's about another human being holding our hand in the collapse. For then the carnage is no longer about the loss, but about what both of these hands are going to build from it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. ~ Craig Ferguson

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have "forever" repercussions. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ain't nothing wrong with shootin' folks, long as the right ones get shot ~ Craig Johnson

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mindfulness is like a multifaceted diamond that looks different depending on which facet you reflect. ~ Dr Stephen McKenzie And Dr Craig Hassed

Down at the far end of the lake there's a marsh that rolls wide and long with a thatch-work thicket of pristine cattails that gently sway in the lightest breeze. And the redwing blackbirds call from it, with their sweet and throaty melody finding its way across the lake's expanse and listing into the adjacent woods of muscular oaks and graceful maples. And sitting in a boat on the lake's expanse, I wonder what insanity would prompt me to focus on the fish I can't catch, and not on the melody that I can. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. ~ Craig Groeschel

Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish
stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are
going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.' ~ Craig Ferguson

Doing life without God is not doing life. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God reached in because I had so thoroughly destroyed my life that I could not find a single gap in the carnage through which I could reach out. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Revelation announces that God is still in control and that he will conclude this stage of history the way he has promised. He ~ Craig S. Keener

As my dear wife occasionally reminds me: "Never miss an opportunity to shut the fuck up. ~ Craig Ferguson

I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers. ~ Larry Craig

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day. ~ Craig Brown

A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol. ~ Craig Ferguson

Pharisees were the upstanding "conservative evangelical pastors" of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance in every area of life, if only it could be properly interpreted.69 Yet it is precisely such an environment in which a healthy perspective on the Bible can easily give way to legalism. ~ Craig L. Blomberg

Good Lord, just look at that six pack!" She sighed. "I think you could grate cheese there."

"Fran, if you were with Daniel Craig with no shirt, I think the last thing you would think about would be grating cheese. ~ Amanda Laneley

Your father is why you don't allow guns in the house?" "I just don't like them. It seems to me that no matter what they always lead to bad things. My opinion is that produced for their specific purpose, they are inherently bad." We stared at each other for a moment, then she continued, "I know that they are a necessary evil in your line of work, but I don't allow necessary evils in my home. ~ Craig Johnson

Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

But nobody lives in a universal thing called culture. They live only in specific cultures, each of which differ from one another. Plays written and produced in Germany are three times as likely to have tragic or unhappy endings than plays written and produced in the United States. Half of all people in India and Pakistan say they would marry without love, but only 2 percent of people in Japan would do so. Nearly a quarter of Americans say they are often afraid of saying the wrong things in social situations, whereas 65 percent of all Japanese say they are often afraid. In their book Drunken Comportment, Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton found that in some cultures drunken men get into fights, but in some cultures they almost never do. In some cultures drunken men grow more amorous, but in some cultures they do not. ~ David Brooks

Maybe the thing that we're losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A man of your valor deserves not another breath. ~ Craig R. Key

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country. ~ Larry Craig

I remember the big gaping hole left by my dad's absence in the months following the accident. He'd been the one who went to my parent-teacher conferences, the one who taught me mnemonics to memorize the Great Lakes and the Earth's atmospheres. Whenever I did something silly, my dad always made me feel better by telling me a story from the firehouse about someone who had done something even sillier. Sometimes you don't realize all the things a person does for you until they aren't there to do them anymore. ~ Paula Stokes

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love. ~ Craig Ferguson

I can wait for life to shape me in whatever manner it chooses. Or I can shape me to make life whatever I choose. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A New York City judge struck down a proposed law to ban sodas larger than 16 ounces. I think Mayor Bloomberg should spend his time trying to improve stuff like education. New York needs a better education system if kids didn't figure out they could get around the 16-ounce soda ban by simply purchasing two 12-ounce sodas. ~ Craig Ferguson

When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clear
minds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity. ~ Angela Lynne Craig

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

Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it. ~ Craig Ferguson

Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job. ~ Craig Ferguson

Looking up, I observed one solitary leaf that remained on a spindly branch of an old oak tree. And as winter's frigid winds blew against it twisting it this way and that, I thought that it was either committed to holding on as long as it could or it was afraid to let go. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't mind, it doesn't hurt me if anyone says I'm not normal. I don't know what normal is. Sometimes I'm just really tired, or I haven't eaten, and people get the wrong idea about me. ~ Craig Nicholls

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school. ~ Craig Thompson