F Quotes
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“Folks in the media ask at the behest of Democrats, "isn't it insensitive for us to do a Second Amendment rally following this terror attack?" Let me tell you something. I really don't view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists.”
“Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.”
“Folks is all queer nowadays,' said the peasant-woman.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Folks kill me, thinking they know what I think.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.”
“Folks need the Gospel. We need to have our hearts changed. We see people from a skewed point of view. We need to see people the way God sees them.”
“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".”
“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.”
Source: Emily of New Moon
“Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.”
“Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.”
“Folks talk a lot about the maternal feeling in women, but they say nothing about man's need to protect and care for someone; yet the one feeling is as basic as the other.”
Source: High Lonesome
“Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.”
“Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.”
“Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables
“Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.”
Source: Half-Blood Blues: A Novel
“Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.”
Source: A tower of steel
“Folks trying to plan their personal fiscal '15 are at a loss. They can't do a budget because they don't know what their health insurance costs will be.”
“Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.”
“Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.”
“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
Source: Getting to Happy
“Folks who are alive today need to wake up and do what they can to stop abusing the planet, and find ways to preserve the web of life. That's where the soul is headed. It is time for us to become wounded healers.”
“Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.”
“Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to.”
“Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)”
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
“Folks who scream the loudest get heard, and those who spew the most negative, most repeatedly, get falsely perceived as telling the truth.”
“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.”
Source: The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle
“Folks who've hurt people have no business judging folks who hurt people.”
Source: You Have a Superpower: Mindi Pi Meets Ava "Why Can't I Go Outside"
“Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town”
“Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.”
Source: Rose Cottage
“Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.”
Source: Ghostwritten
“Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!”
“Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.”
“Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth.”
“Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?”
“Folks, don't lose perspective. Michelle Obama husband has been in office 7-1/2 years. This country is in the middle of a massive transformation. She's not gonna go out there and undercut her husband. She probably thinks that the things her husband has done that are transforming this country, that 94 million Americans aren't working... I mean, if you knew what to listen for, you could hear the push-button signs that she's still angry, still carries around a lot of resentment.”
“Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.”
“Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.”
“Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.”
Source: The Poems, 1951-1967
“Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.”
“Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.”
“Folks, if you give people things for free, don't blame them for taking them.”
“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, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?”
“Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.”
“Folks, let me ask you a question about that. You voted in 2010, 2014. You're part of the Tea Party and you show up and you just vote. Republicans said they needed the House, and you gave it to 'em; then they said they needed the Senate, and you gave it to 'em. Do you feel like winners even after those two elections? Probably not, because you really didn't think the Republican Party was going to change their stripes and start acting on all this.”
“Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'”
“Folks, some of these town halls are clearly organized. But, regardless, there are potential warning signs that Republicans perhaps shouldn`t ignore.We heard Democrats dismiss this anger at their town halls back it 2009 as, oh, that`s right, AstroTurf movements. And then, they lost the House in a big way.”
“Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.”
“Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.”