Decent Quotes

I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

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.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Dream big so even if you don't hit the top you will make it somewhere decent.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.