It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I'm gonna be a respectable dude. When people talking to me, I'm gonna show everybody respect. I just wanted to do that,… — The Jacka Copy Share Image
Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world. — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He’ll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s’long as they’ve got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren’… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some… — Hermann Kolbe Copy Share Image
The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. — Maurice Sendak 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
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
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood 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
Marketers are making retirement respectable. Instead of being the beginning of the end, it sounds like Nirvana-do what you want without any… — Jerry Della Femina 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
I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong. — Malvina Reynolds 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
I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth,… — Anonymous 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
We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
