Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong. — Malvina Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
“Indoors was his place and there he'd moulder, a respectable pillar of society who has never had the chance to misbehave.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry. — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable. — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friends who are truly acceptable to our hearts are fully respectable right from the day the friendship starts. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
