Deceny Quotes

#1. Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Morgan Freeman

#2. While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.

Paul Waldman

#3. It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Toni Jerrman

#4. True, but now you've got Bren. Think of it like an extra pair of thermal underwear. Sometimes you're in a situation when you really need two."
Ronnie started to sip her hot chocolate but stopped and put her cup back down. "Darlin', that is one of the dumbest analogies I've heard in a long time.

Shelly Laurenston

#5. Sometimes, the experiences that tell you what you don't want to do are as important as those that tell you what you do want to do.

Meredith Vieira

#6. Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

Janna Levin

#8. I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not ... black.

Alexander McQueen

#9. People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

Albert Camus

#10. The essential of the guild-idea is that [of] men pursuing the same form of activity, but only in cooperation limited to the end of preserving the economic freedom-that is the property and livelihood-of each member of the guild.

Hilaire Belloc

#11. Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

Paul Simon

#12. Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

Scott Lynch

#13. I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Nick Flynn

#14. One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

Peter Higgs