Decent Quotes · Page 25

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible…

— Pope Francis

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this…

— Natasha Lyonne

Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

— John J. Sweeney

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live…

— Edmond de Goncourt

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence…

— Marianne Limpert

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life…

— Alice Munro

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position.…

— Oscar Pistorius

Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind…

— Eoin Colfer

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all…

— Colm Meaney

It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster…

— Anonymous

I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips,…

— James Patterson

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room…

— Stephen Leacock

“You seem to think you’re insignificant, but the truth is you’re so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can’t be the…

— Ai Mi

While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want…

— Albert Einstein

I like to have an active set and a fun set. I keep my days to a decent hour; I don't go…

— Michael Bay

I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be…

— Ezra Klein

Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!

— Maya Banks

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black.…

— William Goldman

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could…

— Emma Goldman

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place…

— Smedley Butler

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like…

— Glenn Hoddle

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything…

— Eminem

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is…

— Alexander Pope

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

— Norman Borlaug

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

— Pam Houston

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

— Wilhelm Keitel

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing.…

— Penelope Ann Miller

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is…

— Matt Roper

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

— Michael Arad

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

— Elihu Root

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

— Anthony Bourdain

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in…

— Joseph Heller

Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the…

— Hillary Clinton

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not…

— Tama Janowitz

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or…

— Abraham Maslow

Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do…

— Jeff Cooper