Decent Quotes

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

My mother, she smiles when I come around now. My daughter's eatin' decent meals and she's in private school. She's 4 years old. She started school. It's a beautiful thing.

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

Mitt Romney, maybe the most moral and decent man who's ever run for president, ended up being a murderer, somebody who didn't care about animals, and a tax cheat.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.

I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

Honestly, I just try to drink lots of water and get a decent amount of sleep!

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

In America, we have lost millions of decent-paying jobs. That has got to end.

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.