Folkins Law Quotes & Sayings

I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you. — Willem Dafoe

So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again. — Brad Warner

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment. — Rabindranath Tagore

Basketball, man: it is a land of giants. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. — William Westmoreland

Write your dreams down; make them vivid and specific; give them a concrete timeline for realization; — Jeff Olson

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog. — Sebastian Barry

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men. — B.C. Forbes

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth. — Helen Van Slyke

Pakosta shrugged. "The problem is how they drive. People fall asleep. Lose the road. They won't slow down or stop. I'm sick of picking dogs out of fenders. — Richard House

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook

I feel really content in my 30s actually. I don't feel like the wisest person in the world but I definitely don't worry or stress like I used to. — Jayma Mays