Decent Quotes · Page 24

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

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

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

— Jim Carrey

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a…

— Ricky Gervais

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

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

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act /…

— Julia Cameron

You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the…

— Peter F. Hamilton

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is…

— David Nicholls

First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed…

— Jim Beaver

I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the…

— Barack Obama

What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf,…

— William J. Clinton

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it…

— Rachel Dratch

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet…

— Alvin Toffler

If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the…

— Clint Eastwood

You see, even though back then Barack was a senator and a presidential candidate, to me, he was still the guy who'd…

— Michelle Obama

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we…

— John Henrik Clarke

That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a…

— Robertson Davies

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really…

— Jacque Fresco

If you think reading a book is hard, you should try writing one. Because it's even harder. It's still not as hard…

— Erik Wolpaw

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth…

— Charlie Chaplin

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude…

— Lionel Blue

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

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is…

— Edgar Degas

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

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent…

— Tony Blair

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

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you…

— Michael Patrick Jann

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into;…

— Bill Ayers

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

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

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

— Jeremy Collier

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

— Adrienne Rich

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

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human…

— Jimmy Nail

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

— Dan Simmons

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a…

— Graham Moore

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

— Anthony Bourdain