Top 1200 Decent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I think I am a decent father.

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?

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

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

The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs, pushed down wages for American workers and led to the decline of our middle class. We want American companies to create decent-paying jobs in America, not just low-wage countries like Vietnam, Malaysia or China. The TPP must be defeated.

I wish we could be decent to each other.

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

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

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. Being close to animals brings some of it back.

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

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

Playing to a decent standard sometimes isn't enough.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I'm a basically decent person.

I think I have got a decent pain threshold.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they don't really have work. The chances of them making a decent life for themselves, of making a family, living in a kind of decent, happy way, are very, very remote. It's very hard for them to ever even have that as a dream, so when people are that deprived of the ordinary hope of human beings, it creates anger. And that anger can be channeled by unscrupulous persons, whether secular or religious leaders, and there's been a lot of that.

Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.

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.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

I try to stay in decent shape.

I'm a decent man who exports flowers.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

I always made a decent living.

I am pretty decent-looking.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

Eric Holder is a decent man.

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

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

Thanks to football, I live a decent life.

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

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.

I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us more and more is whether you have good prospects or you don't. Do you live a neighborhood where the schools are good? If you don't, your kids may not read until the time they're in third grade. Do you at least have access to a community college that will give you job training skills so that if you don't go for four years you will at least come out with a decent job and a decent wage. Too many people don't have that opportunity.

Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those who have no safe drinking water. It is about health care, it is about a life of dignity for the old. It is about overcoming the huge divide between urban and rural areas. It is about a decent education for all our people. Socialism is about rolling back the tyranny of the market. As long as the economy is dominated by an unelected, privileged few, the case for socialism will exist.

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

I think I look pretty decent in a tux.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

I have had a decent career.

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

This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

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

I'm horrendous at capturing a decent selfie.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.

I think I'm a decent person.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

I am not a man in decent shape.

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