Decent Quotes · Page 7

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

— Bertrand Russell

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

— May Sarton

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

— P. D. James

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

— Joe Hart

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK.

— Julie Bowen

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

— Christoph Waltz

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a…

— Che Guevara

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might…

— Vinny Guadagnino

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant…

— Lynne Stewart

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

— Jim Butcher

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

— T. S. Eliot

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do…

— Hector Hugh Munro

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

— Lucille Kallen

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's…

— Linda Ronstadt

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow…

— Ban Ki-moon

Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members.…

— Anne Truitt

It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but…

— Katherine Boo

The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform…

— Joan Baez

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators…

— John Cleese

I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want…

— Jonathan Kozol

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build.…

— Golda Meir

My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a…

— Edward Kennedy

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?…

— Martin McDonagh

I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live…

— William Kittredge

Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences…

— James H. Cone

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus…

— Richard Dawkins

I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters…

— Betty White

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal.…

— Condoleezza Rice

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

— Adriana Trigiani

I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

— Lil' Kim

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

— George Orwell

“A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.”

— Hermann Broch

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

— Eminem

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

— Grant Heslov

If you got it, flaunt it may be decent advice for prostitutes, but no one else.

— Dov Davidoff

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

— Anonymous