Decent Quotes

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

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

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

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.

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.

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

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

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.