Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three… — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
If I could make a decent living doing documentaries, I would. I don't really care about [the other] stuff so much. But… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life.… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into;… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world… — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act /… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
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