Decent Quotes

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.

Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Eating cookies that you bake with your grandmother is one of the greatest social steps one must experience in order to grow up into a decent world citizen, in my opinion.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one another and toward our environment.

Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

I am a decent man who believe in myself and respect others.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Your Brain is most Precious FACTORY in the World Because, It MANUFACTURES Thoughts

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

I ain't got no Visa, I ain't got no Red American Express, We can't go nowhere exotic, It don't matter 'cause I'm decent and Loyal.