Top 25 Folks Quotes of 212 - Page 2

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

Nella Larsen

Cake, Trouble, Folks

Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.38, Courier Corporation

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

John Marston

Trouble, Folks

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Gene Stratton-Porter

Hardship, Success And Failure, Folks

Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.1411, Xist Publishing

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bruce Springsteen

United States, Collapse, Folks

"Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American'". Interview with Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Willard Scott

Hands, Microphones, Folks

Willard Scott, Daniel Paisner (1988). “America Is My Neighborhood”, Fireside

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Cat, Silent, Folks

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

Kris Carr

Light, Plant, Folks

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

Bernie Sanders

Thinking, Wealth, Folks

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Steve Jobs

Design, Marketing, Folks

Difficult folk, these women!

Mikhail Bulgakov

Women, Difficult, Folks

Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.170, Penguin

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

Michael Nutter

Kkk, Black, Folks

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

Louis L'Amour

Violence, Firsts, Folks

Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.157, Bantam

A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean

Eating, Folks

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

Zora Neale Hurston

Lying, Scared, Folks

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

Joan of Arc

Poor, Folks, Unkindness

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

Herman Cain

Jobs, Real, Folks

Herman Cain (2011). “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Elbert Hubbard

Writing, Thinking, Folks

Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Bono

Ends, Pops, Folks

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Politics, Politician, Folks

The Illiterate Digest "Breaking into the Writing Game" (1924)

Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.

Mary Travers

Human Condition, Concern, Folks

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

Laurell K. Hamilton

People, Fiction, Folks

Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.

John Hiatt

Death, Folks

Song: Death By Misadventure, 1983

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Jennifer L. Holm

Growing Up, Talking, Folks

Jennifer L. Holm (2010). “Turtle in Paradise”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers