Decent Quotes

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I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen… — Roland Merullo
There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocriticalâ€”as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency canâ€™t exist. — T.H. White
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the… — David McCullough
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.… — Howard Zinn
This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and… — Kelly Corrigan
I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I… — Dean Karnazes
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that. — John Fowles
I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my… — Maggie Stiefvater
All this timeâ€¦ever since I sold my soul, Iâ€™ve been clinging to this idea that there is something pure and decent out there. That there… — Richelle Mead
The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who… — Sebastian Barry
You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go… — Orson Scott Card
Charles could care less about shoes - and he suspected he wasn't alone among men in his feelings. Shoe, no shoe, he didn't care. Naked… — Patricia Briggs
You need to remember that. If youâ€™re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real,… — Richard Dawkins
Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in… — Jonathan Stroud
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another… — Hunter S. Thompson
I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are.… — Neil Gaiman
The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would… — C.S. Lewis
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that. — Amy Chua

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