Decent Quotes

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It's an odd job, making decent people laugh. — Moliere
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed,… — Robert Higgs
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish… — Temple Grandin
A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price… — Peter Lynch
There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part,… — Amy Chua
Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get… — John Anderson
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How… — John Hurt
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out… — Mary Ellen Chase
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education. — Carol Bellamy
I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those. — Tim Henman
The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses. — James Joyce
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.… — Henry Adams
Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples.… — Mark Dvoretsky
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent… — Brad Pitt
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local… — Juan Somavia
Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had… — Jimmy Carter
A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty.… — Susette La Flesche
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see… — Patrick Marber
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in… — Robert Adam
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to… — James Nesbitt

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