Good organization,” said Magnus. “I knew the man who founded it, back in the 1800s. Woolsey Scot. Respectable old werewolf family.” Alec… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did? — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless… — William P. Merrill Copy Share Image
I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America,… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
