Decent Behavior Quotes

#1. After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.

Dan Simmons

#2. Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

Dan Simmons

#3. I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use...

{Writing about Isaac Newton}

Christiaan Huygens

#4. Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

William Shakespeare

#5. Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy, while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send young kids down the road to be Ted Bundys.

Ted Bundy

#6. I was often allowed to watch them drink their cocktails.

James Baldwin

#7. Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

Karen Karbo

#8. I can take a joke," she tells me, sounding insulted.
"Yeah? When?"
"When it's not being delivered by a childish jackass who thinks he's God's gift to women."
"I am not childish." God's gift on the other hand? My record speaks for itself.
"Oh, bite me."
I wish.

Emma Chase

#9. When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.

Daniel Wu

#10. Every cause that has not yet produced its effect is an event that has not yet come to completion. It is an imbalance of energy that is in the process of becoming balanced.

Gary Zukav

#11. would you reather stand before 12 or be carried by 6

Leo Sullivan

#12. Creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Maude Meagher

#13. Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. If he did this to you, he would have rationalized it somehow. That's how decent people justify bad behavior. In

Blake Crouch

#15. Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Lucille Kallen

#16. Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

Darin Strauss

#17. I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#18. Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Boyd K. Packer

#19. I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

Michael Arad

#20. I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

Bill Gates

#21. I have never liked haircuts.

John Updike