Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. — Tom Robbins
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do — Elbert Hubbard
It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with… — Neil Gaiman
You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one… — Terry Pratchett
It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real… — Katherine Dunn
Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because,… — Bill Hicks
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. — Josh Billings
In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas.… — Andy Andrews
So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first.… — Cassandra Clare
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the… — Henry Beston
Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. — Bell Hooks
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench… — Walter Moers
It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they… — David Baldacci
I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who… — William P. Young
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.”… — Ron Rash
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a… — Louis Armstrong
Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey… — Zora Neale Hurston
(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves… — Alice Walker
Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far… — Kate Jacobs
When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe… — William Faulkner
Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have… — Chuck Palahniuk
That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll… — Colum McCann
I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just… — Kathryn Stockett
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they… — Jules Verne
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food… — Chuck Palahniuk

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