Decent Quotes
829 quotes by 672 authors
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Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of…
— Richard Ben-Veniste
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It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household…
— William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better…
— Brian O'Driscoll
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Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and…
— Thomas Piketty
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Regardless of their politics, the vast majority of the people I meet, when they can speak and listen and act of their own accord and…
— Charles M. Blow
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Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
— Gaines Adams
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We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes…
— James Howard Kunstler
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
— Channing Pollock
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent,…
— Barbara Boxer
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I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met…
— David Steinberg
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I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up…
— Lloyd Cutler
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We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I…
— Mike Lowry
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So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
— Kitty Carlisle
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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
— Richard Morris
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and…
— Larry Niven
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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
— Thomas Mann
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
— Samuel Butler
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It felt good to actually have a decent swim.
— Ryan Lochte
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