Decent Quotes

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

  

  Miep Gies
  • Done
  • Persons
  • Decent

• You know, even in the economic downturn in Alberta, there are restaurants in Calgary, and even in Canmore up the mountain, that cannot open for lunch because they cannot find staff. And they cannot find staff because there's nowhere for those people to live. And so safe and decent housing, market housing, subsidized housing, the whole bit, we really, really need to have our heads on straight on this, and we don't yet.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • People
  • Mountain
  • Economic

• John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Human being
  • Decent

• There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Past
  • Wish
  • Gay

• If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us. In the long run He never leaves decent folk in the lurch. Often He may test them, He may send trials upon them, but in the long run He always lets His sun shine upon them once more and at the end He gives them His blessing.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Way
  • Decent
  • Pursue

• The criminal law is no use to decent people.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Decent
  • Criminal Law

• 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
  • Genius
  • Able
  • Andrea

• Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • People
  • Hero
  • Underrated

• Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.

  

  Wolfgang Kubicki
  • Authority
  • Phenomenon
  • Aggravating

• Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Should
  • Decent

• I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.

  

  Rumi
  • Kind
  • Decent
  • Came Back

• I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

  

  David Steel
  • Wine
  • Quiet
  • Decent

• Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • World
  • Problem
  • Survival

• I think if you're a liberal, you believe that we all are, at least to some extent, our brothers' keepers, you really believe that we have a sumptuary responsibility to make sure that life is decent for everybody in America, that you believe that society out to be broadly shared, and you believe that you can't have a real democracy unless you have a little bit, at least, of economic democracy.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Religious
  • Catholic
  • Decent

• The only decent bone in her body was mine.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Body
  • Bones
  • Decent

• And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

  

  Ken Bruen
  • People
  • Want
  • Evil

• Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

  

  Celia Rivenbark
  • Values
  • Impossible
  • Holiday

• Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Cooks

• It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

  

  Tim Bishop
  • Trying
  • Pain
  • Benefits

• Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Husband

• When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Catholic
  • Would
  • Repertoire

• Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Ideas
  • Eye
  • Existence

• All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

  

  Tony Blair
  • Risk
  • Lasting
  • Settlement

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