Best 108 quotes in «decent quotes» category

I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.

I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

I had never really heard of Meryl Streep before. Someone told me she was an actress and she'd been in a few things, but I said, you know, whatever. She showed up and she seemed somewhat inexperienced, so I gave her a few pointers, and I think she has a decent career ahead of her. It's always hard to tell these things in Hollywood, but I do think that she has some talent under there. I think she's a diamond in the rough.

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

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.

I think there's a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you're lucky, make a decent living here. That's a big plus. That's pretty positive. The weather is OK.

I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

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

It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.

It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

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

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

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

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

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

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

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

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

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

There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.