Top 1200 Decent Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I thought I was a pretty decent soccer player. I'm not.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

I always made a decent living.

As long as I'm living decent, then I'm cool.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

I have had a decent career.

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

I'm a decent dancer - I can hold my own.

I think I look pretty decent in a tux.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

Thanks to football, I live a decent life.

I try to stay in decent shape.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

I think I am a decent father.

I've been raised with a decent head on my shoulders.

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men.

I'm horrendous at capturing a decent selfie.

I'm a basically decent person.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

I grew up in Roehampton in the south-west - it's decent!

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.

This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.

I wish we could be decent to each other.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

I think I'm a decent person.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

We're from New York, so we have a decent following.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

I think I have got a decent pain threshold.

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.

My fitness has always been decent. I run constantly.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

I am pretty decent-looking.

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.

Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will.