Decent Quotes
If there's an interesting role that comes up as a great support role in a decent picture, then I'll do that.
We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.
The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.
I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.
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.
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.
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.
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?
I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent
I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.
Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.
My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!
Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.
It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.
She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?
To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.
Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.
I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.
I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.
How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.
You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.