Stokes Quotes

Haven't we had another climatically dysfunctional scorcher of a summer this year? Novian. Chapter 1. ~ Loron-Jon Stokes

I don't make to-do lists, but if I did, today's would have gone something like this: 1. get drunk, 2. get laid, 3. go surfing (not necessarily in that order.) Noticeably absent from the list: get arrested. And yet here I am, spending my eighteenth birthday with my back against the wall of the Colonel's hunting cabin, two FBI agents prowling the dark with their guns drawn, both trying to get me to confess to the murder of my friend Preston DeWitt. ~ Paula Stokes

The nature of mind is the nature of everything" – Dudjom Rinpoche (1904 – 1987) ~ Loron-Jon Stokes

If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing. ~ DaShanne Stokes

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

A kiss, he said, is a conversation. Easing closer, he continued to speak as he caressed her cheeks with featherlight stokes of his thumbs.
"A first kiss", his lips neared hers, is an introduction and then his mouth brushed against hers. The contact sparked, sharp and bright like lightning, yet his lips were soft, unexpectedly so. Her breath caught the same instant his did.
Against her mouth he whispered "That was Hello" His breath mingled with hers as he waited, his lips so close she could feel their warmth. For a moment she simply breathed him in growing heady on the scent of him and the tight anticipation gathering in her belly. Then she understood. Nerves fluttering, she brushed her lips across his as he had done. Again his breath hitched, as if he too felt that same spark, that hot need. Her eyes drifted closed and his voice poured over her like warm cream.
"This is, 'I'm Jack'. ~ Kristen Callihan

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle. ~ Thayer David

Love should never mean having to live in fear. ~ DaShanne Stokes

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature. ~ Paula Stokes

I'm stronger with Cheyenne. Sure, I never settle for less than my best, but my best is better with my sister beside me. The realization brings me a weird sense of calm. Not peace, exactly, but resolution. ~ Paula Stokes

I'm a beginning, not an end. ~ Kerry Stokes

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

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

Yeah, history is just brimming over with stories of total degenerates evolving into decent human
beings. ~ Paula Stokes

My name is Winter Kim. Today I killed a man. Soon I hope to kill another. ~ Paula Stokes

What do you think he did to me to deserve to die?" I ask.

He stokes the fire. Sparks fly up. "I assumed he broke your heart. An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart. ~ Holly Black

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

Transitions from clientelism have often involved leaders from different parties colluding against the entire class of brokers. ~ Susan C. Stokes

Whoever said it was better to have loved and lost was completely full of shit. ~ Paula Stokes

There's nothing abnormal about loneliness. ~ Paula Stokes

Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge. ~ Ronnie Whelan

And this time it's different. This time our bodies slide together like they were made to fit. This time Tyson doesn't have to tell me to look at him, because I can't stop. He is all that I see, every inch of dark skin, every curl of hair, every scar or tiny imperfection that all combine to make him seem…perfect. No, not perfect, but perfect for me.

This time it's not about needing an escape. This time it's about wanting a connection. ~ Paula Stokes

Turning off the lights is like opening a doorway in my mind. ~ Paula Stokes

When we hide racism under the guise of 'humor,' we insulate white racist privilege and make a mockery of civil rights. ~ DaShanne Stokes

Sometimes I think I'm the worst sheep of all. ~ Paula Stokes

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

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

Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration. ~ John Stokes

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

Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you. ~ DaShanne Stokes

You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world. ~ Kerry Stokes

Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes. ~ Nicki Minaj

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood. ~ DaShanne Stokes

Why fight the natural order of things?"
"I guess becomes some things are worth it. ~ Paula Stokes

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

The world needs more beautiful things. ~ Paula Stokes

If you destroy an entire generation of people's culture, it's as if they never existed. ~ Lt. Frank Stokes

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. ~ Kerry Stokes

The greatest warrior is not he who conquers his enemies, but he who conquers himself. ~ Sensei Darian Stokes

Because our hearts are unprepared for truth, we cling to the deception as a shipwreck victim on a storm-tossed sea will grab at anything that floats. But the splintered rubble of our broken trust - those temporary buoys of our shattered dreams - betray us, gouging rough gashes into our souls, drawing our blood and leaving us to sink. ~ Penelope J. Stokes

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do. ~ Estelle Parsons

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense. ~ DaShanne Stokes

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. ~ DaShanne Stokes

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

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most. ~ DaShanne Stokes

That's one of the problems with nice guys. If They can't stand up for themselves then they won't be able to stand up for you either. ~ Paula Stokes

I nod. It's true, but I wish it were more true. Usually helping requires either money or time, and it's often the case that someone without one of those things is also lacking in the other. ~ Paula Stokes

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

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated. ~ Louis Stokes

I remember a time when all I wanted was a gun and to learn how to use it. I thought a gun would make me feel safe. I thought a gun would make me feel powerful. But right now I just feel . . . heavy. Like I live in this world of death and destruction and I'll never escape alive. ~ Paula Stokes

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

If I were to do nothing, I'd be guilty of complicity. ~ DaShanne Stokes

I'm afraid if she comes to visit all she's
going to do is remind me of everything I've lost.

Maybe that makes me a bad friend, selfish. I think of it more like self-preservation. I can't handle
more sadness right now. ~ Paula Stokes

If guns don't kill people, why do mass killers arm themselves with guns? ~ DaShanne Stokes

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

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind. ~ Louis Stokes

Words not only reflect a person's thoughts and beliefs, but, through their use, can shape a person's values, beliefs, and actions, making them prejudiced without them even realizing it. That means it's not just the case that actions speak louder than words. It's also true, in this society rife with institutionalized discrimination, that results speak louder than intent. ~ DaShanne Stokes

I've been thinking that when people break up there's usually a reason, and whatever it is, it's still going to be there even if we do get back together. ~ Paula Stokes

Enough with the apologies. I can't just forgive seventeen years of hurt all at once. But you can do better, all right? From today onward, do better. Not just for me. For my mom too. ~ Paula Stokes

Friendships sail like any other ship... left unattended, it will drift away ~ Sensei Stokes

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

How do you make me smile when it seems like there's nothing in the whole world to smile about? ~ Paula Stokes

Well, my dads are always saying I'm the handsome one in the family, but it's always nice to hear a girl say it, too. Especially if she's under fifty. ~ Paula Stokes

I think again about the word criminal, how if it describes me it might also describe a lot of other decent people who made a mistake while struggling to do their best. ~ Paula Stokes

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

Time doesn't heal anything. It's like drinking. The best it can do is help you forget, if you're lucky. ~ Paula Stokes

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. ~ Louis Stokes

Jesse stirs again. This time his fingers twitch. As much as I want to see him open his eyes, I can't be here for that. It'll make leaving him too hard. I turn toward the doorway and I'm outside in the main room of the ICU when I hear his weakened voice say, "Winter?"

I hurry back to the waiting area. Hopefully he'll think he dreamed me. Maybe he did. Sometimes I feel like I'm not even real anymore ~ Paula Stokes

Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people. ~ Paula Stokes

The greatest gift you can give the wicked is your inaction. ~ DaShanne Stokes

I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances. ~ Kerry Stokes

Not sure how you can get them to him without looking like a crazy stalker chick," Micah says.
"You think I'm a crazy stalker chick?"
"You're using an ancient war manual to try to win back your boyfriend. I think you're a girl who will do whatever it takes to get what she wants," he says. "Hey, at least you're committed. ~ Paula Stokes

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

#StokesNotes ~ Craig Stokes

Where does seeking justice end and seeking vengeance begin? ~ Paula Stokes

The truth is the very definition of excellence. ~ Loron-Jon Stokes

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected. ~ DaShanne Stokes

The only way of making money is for effort. The only time I've ever lost money is when I've purposely said, "I'm doing this to make money." And I've actually on three occasions lost significant sums. I have made wealth when I've actually made a contribution to something, when I've done something I thought I could do better than somebody else or have done something better than somebody else does it. ~ Kerry Stokes

Standing behind predators makes prey of us all. ~ DaShanne Stokes

My lower lip trembles. I try to hold back the tears, but then for some reason I think of Sea telling me that first day after my stroke how I've earned them. I feel like maybe I've earned them again.

Or maybe tears aren't something you have to earn. ~ Paula Stokes

Jake Darby? Ugh." Jake Darby is like the villain in a bad teen movie - perfect on the outside, a
festering mass of evil on the inside. ~ Paula Stokes

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

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

A New Buddhist Parable?" Loron-Jon Stokes. Credits. ~ Loron-Jon Stokes

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

Killing someone is different in practice than it is in theory. There are factors you can't prepare for, feelings in the moment where you'll question everything you thought you knew about yourself, other feelings that might follow you long after the deed is done. ~ Paula Stokes

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. ~ DaShanne Stokes

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first. ~ Kerry Stokes

Because they recognize the only thing that separates them from us is bad luck, or making the wrong choice at the wrong time," the woman said. "Most rich people feel like there's a divide between them and us. They don't see we're all the same kind of human. ~ Paula Stokes

We hurry through our days, with our eyes and ears plugged into our devices, our minds far away, not noticing the physical or emotional impression we make on others.....

Popular culture stokes delight in humiliation and conflict. ~ Sarah L. Kaufman

Nothing stings quite like an unanswered text message. ~ Paula Stokes

How will this stroke steal away my remaining dignity, let me count the ways. ~ Paula Stokes

I am not warm. That is why my sister chose the name Winter for me. ~ Paula Stokes

Sobs force their way out of my throat. I feel like I'm trapped in a disaster movie where everything is shriveling into darkness and ash. Sunflowers are being uprooted. Puppies are being trampled. Whole cities are crumbling to dust. ~ Paula Stokes

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

The atmosphere is only about .035 percent carbon dioxide, ~ Cynthia Stokes Brown

Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright! ~ Kelley Lovelace

I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it. ~ DaShanne Stokes

The world is proof that God is a committee. ~ Bob Stokes

Greatness is not measured by the walls we build but by the bridges. ~ DaShanne Stokes

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