Top 1200 Decent Guys Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When I'm doing shows I don't need much from a city. All I'm looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks.

You don't want to make performances; you want to make people. When a project knows, 'Okay, my bad guys need to be a little sympathetic, and my good guys need to have a bit of a mean streak,' you're off to a good start.

My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

Sometimes guys just want the girl and want to drop the kids off anywhere they can. Guys it?s a package. You like a woman, she?s got kids, it?s a package. You can?t just go in one-sided. It?s pretty cool.

Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.

I never had a postup game, which really hurt me eventually. Later in my career, teams would put smaller guys on me to stop my shooting and driving and I wasn't able to exploit my height advantage. I would just take bigger guys outside and drive or shoot my setshot.

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

If we are able to allow people to earn a decent rate of return, with sufficient scale, we can all do well by doing good.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

In the future, I'd like to break more into acting and stuff. I think that pro wrestling is a great springboard, really. You see a lot of guys coming from that world. In a lot of ways, it's like live theater. Guys going out there and performing and having to act on the fly and be their own stuntmen at the same time.

When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

I got to playing villains-I don't know how. I think it's like anything else, in the movies in particular that if you establish yourself as something and you're lucky enough to keep getting hired. You know, there are guys who play the guy who gets the girl, guys who are the best friend of that guy, there's the funny guy, the villain.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

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

When I was young, a lot of the guys could sell themselves to me on the way to the ring with the way they acted and their mannerisms. Guys like Shawn Michaels, who I loved growing up. They were just loud. They didn't even need to say a word because they came out and had this crazy ring gear on.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard.

I am a nerd about this sport. I know guys' records, who they fought, how they win, who they're married to, where they eat dinner, what kind of car do they drive. I'm a big nerd of the sport, so it would be easy for me to sit in front of a table of guys and just talk about fighting.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

When I was still back in Cameroon, because I didn't know English, I used to listen to French rap all the time and then a little bit of American hip-hop. And then, when I got to the States, that's when I really got into all those guys - Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, all those guys.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

Of course my goal at Duke was to win the national championship, but we were shorthanded, and lost one of our big guys that was very important to the team. By the end of the season we only played about six guys. But we tried our hardest and did our best and overall had a successful season.

Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

Because I have experienced a prosperous, healthy and happy existence, I must have been a decent person in a past life.

Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it gets an audience reaction if you point out that superheroes must be a bunch of psychotic nuts. And there are the guys who do it because they're actually interested, and they're trying to get at what's going on underneath. They're interested in the process and the results.

Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys.

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.

If you're talking about crowd enthusiasm, it varies. I have a decent following in Australia so I like there. I'm interested in playing everywhere.

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

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.

London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.

I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.

My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

I used to be a pretty decent athlete when I was young. I would like to really focus on getting back into shape.

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.

For me, I spend an hour sitting down, sending off e-mails and text messages to everyone in my contacts list - guys I played with, guys I work with, friends, relatives, and neighbors. I just fire off something quick that says I love you, I'm thinking about you, and if you need anything, you call me.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

Cannock is a friendly place. You can stroll down the road to a decent pub and have a good curry, and it is not too faceless.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

Felipe Anderson's got a good engine, pace, skill, passing ability and a decent shot on him.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

Dunking is something guys care more about than girls, There's something about jumping that seems to fascinate guys. Girls are more, like, 'As long as the ball goes in, who cares how you got it there?'

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.