Decent famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
-- Al McGuire -
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!
-- Arno Hintjens -
You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.
-- Bear Grylls -
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.
-- Caleb Carr -
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.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
-- Dan Savage -
I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.
-- David James -
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
-- Edward Gibbon -
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
-- Errol Flynn -
When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent.
-- Ghostface Killah -
Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
-- Harry S. Truman -
Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?
-- Janusz Korczak -
I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
-- Jessica Pare -
I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.
-- Jimmy Nail -
A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
-- Katherine Boo -
For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!
-- Lucille Kallen -
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
-- Lynn Abbey -
If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.
-- Mary Beard -
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
-- Max Hastings -
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
-- Mayer Hawthorne -
If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
-- Michael Patrick Jann -
If you’re decent to others, then you’re decent to yourself.
-- Michael Savage -
I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
-- Miep Gies -
But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
-- Mos Def -
She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?
-- Rachel Vincent -
The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.
-- Redd Foxx -
Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.
-- Rick Santorum -
I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
-- Sam Trammell -
Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Dream big so even if you don't hit the top you will make it somewhere decent.
-- Scott Disick -
There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
-- Steig Larsson -
I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.
-- Toni Onley -
It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
-- Yvette Nicole Brown -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
-- Zane Grey -
Decent education in INdonesia is strictly for the elites, and those who are educated are using their knowledge to extract even more from the country, and not to improve it as a whole.
-- Andre Vltchek -
Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
-- Barry Ritholtz -
If you got it, flaunt it may be decent advice for prostitutes, but no one else.
-- Dov Davidoff -
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
-- Frances O'Grady -
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.
-- Patrice O'Neal -
I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
-- Robert Barry -
The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.
-- Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling -
I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.
-- Connor Franta -
No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.
-- Robert H. Frank -
It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.
-- Kevin D. Williamson
