Folks Quotes
1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors
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Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in…
— Daniel Woodrell
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While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not…
— Bell Hooks
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This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.
— Stephen King
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Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and…
— Stephen King
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Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
— Lee Child
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But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs,…
— Robin Hobb
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Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich…
— Jeannette Walls
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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal.…
— David Baldacci
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It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" -…
— Stephen King
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Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in…
— Tamora Pierce
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Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a…
— Anne Lamott
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It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they…
— Harper Lee
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There is no way I’m going out in public like this!” It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old…
— Lauren Oliver
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Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.
— Eugene O'Neill
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Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something.…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
— Harper Lee
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