Top 100 Quotes About Decent
#1. I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
Betty White
#2. After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living.
Marjorie Bowen
#4. Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman.
-Jillian's mother
Gena Showalter
#5. I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#6. It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.
Kevin D. Williamson
#7. I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.
Lindsey Graham
#8. I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.
Kenneth Langone
#9. What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
Terry Pratchett
#10. In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
Kangana Ranaut
#11. You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
Angela Davis
#12. Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
Alexis Arguello
#13. When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
Sarah Hall
#14. It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey
#15. Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
#16. I've done things I'm not proud of and I'm trying really hard to make up for those things by being a decent guy. And decent guys don't act the way I've been acting around you, so I'm going to stop.
Sabrina Sol
#17. In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees.
Louise Hay
#18. One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.
M. M. Musselman
#19. And what am I? (Adron)
You're kind and decent. You have a good heart. (Livia)
I have no heart at all. What I have is a mechanical substitute that pumps blood through a broken body, and half the time it malfunctions. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#21. Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
O. Henry
#22. No business
which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its
workers has any right to continue in this country ... By living wages, I
mean more than the bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a decent
living.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#23. I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
Jack Nicholson
#24. Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
Fran Lebowitz
#26. Decent is the last way I want you, she said, skimming her fingers over my stomach, my lower stomach. My lower lower stomach, AKA the last part of exposed skin that, had my towel been hanging any lower, would have been considered indecent.
Nicole Williams
#27. I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Eamon De Valera
#28. Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been ... just so much bullshit."
"We did say it was still only a dream."
"And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.
Athol Fugard
#29. I explain how America hatred and Jew hatred are [INDEMIC] to Modern Liberalism and delve deeper into why it is the otherwise good and decent people will INVARIABLY side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.
Evan Sayet
#30. And all babies were God's blessing, even those who said bugger quite a lot, and whose presence meant that half the potential wage earners in our family couldn't actually go and get a decent job.
Jojo Moyes
#31. If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Harold Macmillan
#32. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]
Nelson Mandela
#33. 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 Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#34. Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
Joe Dante
#35. In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man ... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
Helen Thomas
#36. 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
#37. The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.
Graham Nelson
#38. 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.
James Fenton
#39. Go find someone who will care for ye good, to sit quiet by yore side at the fire, an' if he treats ye decent as you hoped he would, you'll have all that your heart can desire.
Brian Jacques
#40. 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
#41. You should never be afraid of people ... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you?
Hermann Hesse
#42. 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
#43. Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
Natasha Lyonne
#44. She's my hero. Everything good and decent that I am is because of my mother.
Katie Ashley
#45. But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
C.S. Lewis
#46. Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.
Tom Morello
#47. I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society.
Jessica Anthony
#48. Any decent jock could ride her. But familiarity with a horse gave you an edge.
Jane Schwartz
#49. I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.
Terry O'Quinn
#50. The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them
Douglas Adams
#52. Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.
Gaylord Nelson
#53. It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.
Sebastiao Salgado
#54. He might actually be a decent bloodsucker. And by decent, I mean a proper, murdering, 'I eat babies for breakfast' vampire. It's always the nice ones you have to worry about.
Julie Kagawa
#55. We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.
Linda Ronstadt
#56. My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
Lauren Bacall
#57. 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
#58. My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon
#59. These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#60. Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
Vernon Howard
#61. I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.
Tucker Max
#62. There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.
Gail Collins
#63. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
Amy Chua
#64. But painting houses wasn't unsatisfying work. You had your good karma jobs, your decent clients. It felt pretty good when you drove away on that last day, paid in full, having restored a little color to someone's shit-brown life.
Wally Lamb
#65. Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.
Richard Dawkins
#66. There ain't no clean way to make a hundred million bucks ... Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them ... Decent people lost their jobs ... Big money is big power and big power gets used wrong. It's the system.
Raymond Chandler
#67. I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'
Kreayshawn
#68. Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.
Rick Santorum
#69. Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.
Jeff Cooper
#70. Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.
Cory Doctorow
#71. We be decent thieves, not some politicals. We didn't try to attack the authorities. We was only stealing.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#72. Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
Wendell Berry
#74. I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#75. Jordan pinched the bridge of his nose. 'The only decent piece of trivia I know is that it's against the law to cross the state boundaries of Iowa with a duck on your head.
Jodi Picoult
#76. I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
Alice Walker
#78. I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?
Georges Bernanos
#79. He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.
John Fusco
#80. It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.
Marcus Aurelius
#81. Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
Jenny Han
#82. After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.
Martin Filler
#83. People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.
Johnny Marr
#84. I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.
Susanne Bier
#85. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
Smedley Butler
#86. Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody.
Greg Gutfeld
#87. I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.
Bradley Cooper
#88. I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.
John Adams
#89. The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
Bill O'Reilly
#91. Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.
Pam Houston
#92. Wherever it might be that good men like Smit go to when they die I hope very much that it has a decent library.
Christopher Leary
#93. My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!
Emily Carr
#94. In general, the PC's always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.
Brian Krzanich
#95. What is it with that argument? Why is it that you have to jump through hoops of fire to find out that someone's decent? The fact that someone is a bitch on the surface says heaps about them.
Melina Marchetta
#96. HAVING NEVER taken a decent holiday before, I decided on a trip to Thailand, booked a flight and flew out the following week. Mate, I loved it. The friendly people, the food, the females!
Simon Palmer
#98. Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
Dan Harmon
#99. No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent
Nelson Mandela
#100. 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
