Folks Quotes · Page 14

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

— Amitava Kumar

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

— Toni Cade Bambara

Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink.

— Bobby Heenan

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

— Josh Billings

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

— Ben Harper

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of…

— Johnny Cash

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

— Voltaire

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at…

— Ted Naifeh

I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant,…

— Keith Murray

Sometimes you successful folks can rise up so high reaching for more stuff that you miss knowing God. But you can never…

— Denver Moore

We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than…

— Matt Shea

For America to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step, and we have to do so making absolutely certain…

— Barack Obama

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents…

— Ronald Hutton

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and…

— Snoop Dogg

The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is…

— Ezra G. Levin

It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to…

— Gloria Steinem

There had been a proposed plank for the platform that said the Republican Party believed the United States should support Ukraine in…

— Rachel Maddow

There is no way I’m going out in public like this!” It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones…

— Jeaniene Frost

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to…

— Tom Vilsack

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd…

— Philip Pullman

Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of…

— Denis Hayes

I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things…

— Gail Collins

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

— Ani DiFranco

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

— Junot Diaz

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

— Joan of Arc

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

— Steven Sinofsky

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks…

— Steve Jobs

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

— Marilyn Manson

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

— William Barnes

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long…

— William Shakespeare

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

— L. Frank Baum

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

— Euripides

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

— Stephen King

We're going to build a wall, folks. We're going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your head…

— Donald Trump

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

— Steven Sinofsky

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

— Walter Scott

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

— Geoffrey Canada