Folks Quotes - Page 20

• I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

  Gene Robinson

  Gay, Thinking, Church

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• Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that, that's fine. Live and let live. But for those who regret never trying, it's a shame because the Web, as complex as it may seem, makes it all possible

  Ken Evoy

  Courage, Regret, Long

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• You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspiring, Graduation, Opportunity

  Remarks by the First Lady in Commencement Address to Dillard University, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 10, 2014.

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• It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Thinking, Long

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Loss, Trying, Cost

  "How High Will Your Health Insurance Premiums Go In 2015?". townhall.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

  Duane G. Carey

  Teamwork, Space, Looking Forward

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• From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Pearls, Advertising, Wonderful

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• I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Food, Sleep, Cooking

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• God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

  Philip Appleman

  Atheist, Thinking, Answers

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• An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Art, Drama, Intelligent

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.114, DoctorZed Publishing

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fun, War

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Self

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• These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Asks

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2014

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• My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Boston, Hollywood

  "R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2015.

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• We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

  Scott Putesky

  Noise, Youth, Psychedelic

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• More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

  Tom Robbins

  Soul, Waxing, Mystery

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• But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

  Margaret Spellings

  Believe, Holding On, Program

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

  George Strait

  Thank You, Country, Careers

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• My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood type is solid marmalade.

  Bob Hope

  Blood, One Line, Facts

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• Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

  David Oliver Relin

  People, Age, 80s

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• Different strokes for different folks.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Different

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• The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

  Stephen King

  Life, Hate, Love You

  STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

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• The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.

  Puggy Pearson

  Real, Mean, Winning

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• Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

  Stanley Walker

  Running, Manners, Instinct

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