Respectable Quotes
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.
Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.
Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.
People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.
Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.
If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property
If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.
When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.
I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.
Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.
The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.
One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.
