“Faye, if you got eaten by another shark, would you please at least have the decency to say so? My time is… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
“X secretly castigates himself and wonder where his basic decency and compassion are.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Protecting our communities and ensuring that every person, regardless of their status, is treated fairly is a matter of justice and decency. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to… — Shelley Fabares Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
“Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into… — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us -… — Michael Bennett Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
There are only so many things you can do in life, and if you think I'm going to spend my waking hours… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
“It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges.… — Alex Adams Copy Share Image
“There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good” — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
“Pursue decency in all dealings with your fellow man and woman. Simply put? Don’t be an asshole.” — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
If there was one last thing I could do in my life, it would be to help Dilma turn this country around,… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. — Khaleda Zia Copy Share Image
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
If you want to live in a world without judgmentalism, it also means living in a world without morality and decency. — John Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.” — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
