Folks Quotes
1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors
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Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in.…
— Leif Enger
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I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there…
— Neil Gaiman
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Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until…
— Tom Robbins
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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
— Harper Lee
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Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy…
— John Steinbeck
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I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I…
— Bob Dylan
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His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Religion turned some folks belligerent.
— Eileen Wilks
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If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of…
— Harper Lee
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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance:…
— William Butler Yeats
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It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.
— George Carlin
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Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need…
— Tim Wise
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For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.
— George W. Bush
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There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link.…
— Bruce Coville
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Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.
— Tamora Pierce
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I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o'…
— Terry Pratchett
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Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they…
— Shane Claiborne
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Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
— Michael A. Stackpole
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No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to…
— Harper Lee
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Some folks are happier not being saved.
— Lisa Kleypas
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