Decent Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decent Innocent Innocent people People
Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ... — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous. — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good… — Howard Keel Copy Share Image
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup… — Romain Grosjean Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely… — Land ethic Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top… — Jerry Kramer Copy Share Image
