Decent Quotes
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent association for Himself.
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.
It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.
You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.
I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.
If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.
Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.
Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.
It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.
About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.
Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.
Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.
Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.
I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.
We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
I get tested for HIV twice a year.... One has to be socially aware. It's part of being a decent human to be tested for STDs. It's just disgusting behaviour when people don't. It's so irresponsible.
You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.
It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with!
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.
I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.
If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.