Folks Quotes - Page 19

• For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

  George W. Bush

  America, Shooting

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• There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

  Bruce Coville

  Thinking, Funny Things, People

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• Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.

  Tamora Pierce

  Military, Way, Sticks

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• I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Men, Wind

  "A Hat Full of Sky". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

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• Sometimes people call folks here at the Simple Way saints. Usually they either want to applaud our lives and live vicariously through us, or they want to write us off as superhuman and create a safe distance. One of my favorite quotes, written on my wall here in bold black marker, is from Dorothy Day: "Don't call us saints; we don't want to be dismissed that easily

  Shane Claiborne

  Wall, Distance, Writing

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

  Michael A. Stackpole

  Sociopath, Enough, Hard

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• No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Smart, Thinking, Daddy

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Some folks are happier not being saved.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Saved

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

  Eoin Colfer

  Life, Fowl, Assumption

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Talking, People, Say Anything

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.115, Penguin

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• As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

  Bell Hooks

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong window at first. Gave your friend in the next cell something of a shock. Attractive fellow, what with the beard and the rags. Kind of reminds me of the street folk back home.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Thinking, Cells

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

  Henry Beston

  Stars, Fear, Night

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Lifetime, Graves

  "Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

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• Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

  Walter Moers

  Food, Gourmet, Ordinary

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.

  David Baldacci

  Country, Journey, America

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think.

  William P. Young

  Fall, Thinking, Who I Am

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• It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

  Ron Rash

  Philosophy, Dark, Men

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• The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

  Louis Armstrong

  Music, Memories, Night

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• Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Use, Way, Cry

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.31, University of Illinois Press

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• (a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

  Alice Walker

  Struggle, Moon, Spirit Love

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.1964, Hachette UK

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• Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When you're new to something-or you haven't tried it in a while-it can feel impossibly hard to get it right. Every misstep feels like a reason to quit. You envy everyone else who seems to know what they're doing. What keeps you going? The belief that one day you'll also be like that: Elegant. Capable. Confident. Experienced. And you can be. All you need now is enthusiasm. A little bravery. And-always-a sense of humor.

  Kate Jacobs

  Baby, Mean, Skills

  Kate Jacobs (2008). “Knit Two”, p.6, Penguin

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• When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Long, Done

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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