Decent Quotes
829 quotes by 662 authors
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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
— Eminem
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'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem…
— James Fenton
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
— Errol Flynn
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I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
— Mayer Hawthorne
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Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
— Christopher Hitchens
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I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
— Christopher Hitchens
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You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a…
— Glenn Hoddle
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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
— Homer
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We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that…
— Alphonso Jackson
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The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent…
— James Earl Jones
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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
— Frida Kahlo
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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
— Jessica Lange
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly…
— C.S. Lewis
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Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right,…
— Rush Limbaugh
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After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So…
— Ryan Lochte
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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't…
— Harold MacMillan
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