Decent Quotes · Page 37

The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they…

— Anonymous

Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas…

— William Watson Purkey

Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a…

— Noam Chomsky

These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to…

— Jan Cameron

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

— Alice Walker

I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, 'Do not give me a…

— Sandra Bullock

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

— Ken Buck

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well…

— Andrew Lo

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent…

— Michael Mann

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

— Abraham Maslow

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

— Bill Ayers

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ...

— Andy Rooney

I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There…

— Mickey Newbury

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

— Amos Oz

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

— Felix Baumgartner

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non…

— Seneca the Younger

At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of…

— Brian Eno

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe…

— Frank Herbert

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

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes…

— Edward Abbey

If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked…

— Emma Thompson