Top 1200 Decent Guys Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

One of my rules for life is: 'When in doubt, assume the best,' because in the end, most people are pretty decent.

I started cooking when I was growing up in Hyderabad, and I was already pretty decent when I was around seven years old.

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

I found during my time covering the NHL that the enforcers were some of the most accessible guys and the most low-key guys. I think that's somewhat of a natural thing. I don't know if that's because it's the big guy that everybody fears, and then you're sort of surprised and taken by the fact that he's actually a nice guy.

If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

Let me assure you that Mr. Hefner is the most decent man I've ever met in my whole life.

Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny.

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

The American people and the American military will never get used to civilian casualties. And we will - we will fight against that every way we can possibly bring our intelligence and our tactics to bear. We're not the perfect guys, but we are the good guys.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

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.

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

If I want to look half decent, a blow dry is a godsend. I'm crap at doing my own hair.

Depending on who we're playing, it's just kind of, like, a little starstruck. You know, because these are guys that... I'm playing against Tom Brady or Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, guys like that that I've been watching since high school, that's been doing crazy things.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

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.

We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

Some guys play so straight, and that may be their thing; like, a lot of guys are good playing like that. I can't play like that. I have to flair out. I have to yell. I gotta scream. I gotta talk trash - that's how I get myself going.

Anytime you can get some congratulatory - anything said or the guys waiting around the green - that's always nice. You're out here so many weeks a year, and sometimes away from your family, and the tour kind of becomes your family. So when you have these guys hanging around, it's special.

The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.

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.

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

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

We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

I've known Woodley for nine-plus years, ten-plus years. We've worked out together plenty. He's one of the guys who used to slam me all around the place. I was at 155, he was at 170 pounds and he was just the wrestler that is a superpower. So that was one of the dudes that got my wrestling a little better from going with guys like that.

Honestly I prefer dressing for comfort rather than style, so whatever is comfortable and looks decent, that'll do.

We will make a country that is more prosperous and that can provide decent paying jobs for all of our people.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

You have to build your core nucleus of your team through your draft. What that does is you basically introduce them to your culture and your environment. Then, as guys begin to perform and play to that level, then you say, 'You know what? You guys deserve an extension, so here it is.'

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

I don't have a problem with dives out of the ring, but there are a lot of these guys who don't have anything to fall back on, and they're not making any money doing it. A lot of these guys go out there, and they're gonna break their necks at 23 years old doing things they shouldn't be doing.

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Why can men no longer be best friends? This is so stupid. Today if you show two guys being best friends they end up giving out an image that they’re gay. But guys don’t always need to be drinking beer, fighting in pubs or pulling women by the hair. They may have a deep affection.