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Quotes About Folks

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
~ Jim Elliot
The most powerful Vietnam movie, to me, was 'The Deer Hunter,' which was more about what happened to the folks who went and about their relationships.
~ John F. Kerry
How does someone go from thinking that if he cannot rescue, he must destroy? And do you blame him, or do you blame the folks who should have told him otherwise?
~ Jodi Picoult
Tenderness is false mercy. It's easy, emotion without reason. Mercy takes strength, courage, love. Tender-hearted folks will never be there for you when the dark is darkest.
~ Dean Koontz
We support social justice by being antisocial." He leaned forward in his chair, lowering his voice as if imparting a secret. "We protest poverty by living well. And we champion freedom by providing folks like you with whatever you think makes you free.
~ Dean Koontz
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.
~ Ron Eglash
Golf is a central part of my life and I look forward to working with the great folks at Vineyard Vines to create an authentic golf apparel brand that speaks to the golfer.
~ Jim Nantz
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.
~ Eric Ries
Hold it right there. You men from the bank? You Wash's boy? Yessir and Daddy told me I'm to shoot whoever's from the bank. Well, we ain't from the bank young feller. Yessir, I'm also s'posed to shoot folks serving papers. We ain't got no papers neither. I nicked the census man. Now there's a good boy.
~ Unknown
Time is limited; emotions are short. Don't spread yourself too thin. Focus on the close relationships you have now. These are the folks who'll stand by your side no matter what. You'll have plenty of time in the coming weeks to make new acquaintances.
~ Unknown
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
~ Louis L'Amour
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
~ George Benson
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.
~ Paul Mooney
The world's full of men like him. They just have different names, different reasons to hurt folks.
~ DiAnn Mills
I needed help. And good folks responded
~ J.A. Konrath
This subordination of time and place to comfort and convenience is a part of her quite unconscious and therefore unformulated theory that life is the end and that all household arrangements are means to that end. She therefore believes that things are for folks, not folks for things, and always and instinctively acts on that belief.
~ Lyman Abbott
Had it not been for two notorious murders in the early 1980s, Ada would have gone unnoticed by the world. And that would have been just fine with the good folks of Pontotoc County.
~ John Grisham
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
~ Danny Rimer
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.
~ Jim Cooper
I says, 'Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippin' the hell out of ourselves for nothin'.
~ John Steinbeck
The Hamilton family was a bunch of hugging folks
~ J. Lynn
My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from such an encouraging family.
~ Kate Brown
Folks, the President needs a break. Hes like a Black and Decker cordless Dirt Devil vacuum. If you dont recharge his batteries, he cant suck.
~ Steven Colbert
Hi folks, I'm Gerry Gross!
~ Jerry Coleman