Quotes and Sayings About Decent
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I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!
-- Arno Hintjens -
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You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.
-- Bear GryllsSource : Bear Grylls (2012). “Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography”, p.31, Harper Collins
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I always had a decent sense of outrage.
-- Bella AbzugSource : Bella S. Abzug, Mim Kelber (1984). “Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
-- Boyd K. PackerSource : Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
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The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.
-- Caleb CarrSource : Caleb Carr (2006). “The Alienist: A Novel”, p.171, Random House
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
-- Dan Savage -
I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.
-- David JamesSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
-- Edward Gibbon -
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The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
-- Errol FlynnSource : Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).
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When you love what you do, more than likely everything is gonna just come out decent.
-- Ghostface KillahSource : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 5, 2009.
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Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
-- Harry S. Truman -
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Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?
-- Janusz Korczak -
I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
-- Jessica PareSource : "Q&A with Jessica Paré/Megan/ugh this bitch and her teeth". Interview with AMCtv.com, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. October 18th, 2010.
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I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.
-- Jimmy Nail -
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A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
-- Katherine Boo -
For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!
-- Lucille KallenSource : Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”
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The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.
-- Lynn Abbey -
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If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.
-- Mary BeardSource : "Mary Beard reveals she befriended Twitter trolls following online abuse" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2014.
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A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
-- Max HastingsSource : "My vote". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2010.
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I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
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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 -
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If you’re decent to others, then you’re decent to yourself.
-- Michael Savage -
I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
-- Miep Gies