Decent Quotes

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Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to… — George Orwell
When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you… — Wendell Berry
His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in… — Theodore Dalrymple
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie. — Ally Carter
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides… — Terry Pratchett
The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and… — Terry Pratchett
It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries… — Catherynne M. Valente
I hate what you represent." ... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the… — Jim Butcher
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The… — Jonathan Kozol
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. — Jim Butcher
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces… — Abraham Maslow
One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do.… — Jennifer Donnelly
I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals… — Temple Grandin
A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall men. Short men.… — Ellen Hopkins
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman

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