Decent Person Quotes

#1. Because it's no longer enough to be a decent person. It's no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

Joss Whedon

#2. A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

Coventry Patmore

#3. The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Allen Ginsberg

#4. I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?

L.M. Montgomery

#5. You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent person you'll get back what you put in.

John Key

#6. She's an evil vixen. I close my eyes and squeeze my forehead, trying to figure out how I just lost complete control of myself simply because I was kissing her. I think of all the lies that were just passing through my head as my dick tried to convince me she was actually a decent person.

Colleen Hoover

#7. I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

Scott McClellan

#8. I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

Miep Gies

#9. 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 into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

Orson Scott Card

#10. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

John McCain

#11. Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person.

Nelson Algren

#13. Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

Jojo Moyes

#14. A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

Dennis Prager

#15. Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Orson Scott Card

#16. 'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't ... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

RJ Mitte

#17. It is hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.

Lemony Snicket

#18. Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody - except bad people.

Charlton Heston

#20. When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

Jennifer Beals

#21. So you're going to horrible places and meeting horrible people and you're complaining about it? Live your life like a decent person. Go to the grocery store, buy your own food, take care of yourself. If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people," he said.

Aziz Ansari

#22. I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

Brendan Gleeson

#23. I also got the impression that having a lot of money can turn a decent person into an asshole.

Susane Colasanti

#24. I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else.

Alan Arkin

#25. While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

Elif Shafak

#26. When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

Drew Barrymore

#27. If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Michael Patrick Jann

#28. Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?

James Patterson

#29. Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into question any sense I had of myself as a good and decent person. [p. 128]

Dani Shapiro

#30. No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Suzanne Collins

#31. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

Robert Audi

#32. Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

Nick Kroll

#33. 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 case

Maggie Stiefvater

#34. She was a good witch and a decent person, but decent people aren't always easy to live with.

Ursula Vernon

#35. But at the time, I honestly didn't think I was hurting anyone, not even myself. I didn't think much at all, in fact. Yes, I was gorgeous and lucky in love, but I truly believed that I was also a decent person who deserved her good fortune.

Emily Giffin

#36. The part of me that actually cares about being a decent person promptly punched my inner researcher in the jaw and stuffed her in a closet at the back of my head, to be retrieved later.

Seanan McGuire

#37. The bottom line is: if you were a jerk in your original life, you're probably going to be a bigger undead jerk, If you were a decent person, say a juvenile-services librarian with a secret collection of unicorn figurines, you're probably going to be a kinder, gentler vampire.

Molly Harper

#38. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell. Troy

Hugh Howey

#39. So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

Kitty Carlisle

#40. The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

Mary Connealy

#41. When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.

Kenny Loggins

#42. The more you love, the more you can love
and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

Robert A. Heinlein

#43. Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

Paulo Coelho

#44. You seem to think you're insignificant, but the truth is you're so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can't be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won't be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most.

Ai Mi

#45. If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Alex Chilton

#46. One decent sermon cannot influence a disoriented person in the same way your consistent presence in her life can.

Jen Hatmaker

#47. The Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

Dan Savage

#48. Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

Paulo Coelho

#49. Punishment - shaming a person, caging them, making them unemployable - traps them in addiction. Taking that money and spending it instead on helping them to get jobs and homes and decent lives makes it possible for many of them to stop.

Johann Hari

#50. The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

Alan Greenspan

#51. Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

Gaylord Nelson

#52. Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

Isaac Asimov

#53. A person's "like" pattern even makes a decent proxy for intelligence - this model could reliably predict someone's score on a standard (separately administered) IQ test, without the person answering a single direct question.

Christian Rudder

#54. The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Jean De La Bruyere

#55. He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Hugh Howey

#56. A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.

Mark Vonnegut

#57. A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ...

Margaret Halsey

#58. You can't have a decent party for the survivors of a deadly blast without inviting the person who detonated the explosion.

Anthony Rubino Jr.

#59. No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

Daniel Cormier

#60. A person who says "every person has a right to a decent education" may not actually mean "people should be robbed to support bad schools" or "all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.

Jeffrey Tucker

#61. I received a gift
it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my 25 years of live. Does your husband make you a better person?

Ann Patchett

#62. Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.

Bob Burg

#63. USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Ambrose Bierce

#64. I don't hurt other people intentionally. I'm not a bad person. I have a decent job. So I like to put on high heels and a little dress. Does that make me a monster? -Edgar Saturnino, 24 (Lamentations 5:23)

Jessica Zafra

#65. I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.

Katharine Hamnett

#66. What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

Winston Churchill