Decent Quotes - Page 27

• No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

  Daniel Cormier

  Adversity, People, Goal

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• That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.

  Laurie Penny

  Children, Mean, Responsibility

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• First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed my daughter as he has charmed me. I think my kid charmed him, too. This is a fellow I could joyfully spend the rest of my career working with. He's that good and that generous.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Kids, Thinking

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• Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.

  Jamie Dornan

  Sports, Lying, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Peter Lawford

  Nice, Boys, Piano

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

  Redd Foxx

  Long, Definitions, Hard

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• 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.

  Jessica Pare

  Actors, Scene, Knows

  "Q&A with Jessica Paré/Megan/ugh this bitch and her teeth". Interview with AMCtv.com, ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com. October 18th, 2010.

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• I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.

  Chris Vance

  House, Missing, Family And Friends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God’s sake.

  Tom Piazza

  Cutting, New Orleans, Funeral

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

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

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• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

  Eamon de Valera

  War, Passion, Flames

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• Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

  Marguerite Young

  Time, Fun, Years

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• Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Success, Spiritual, Jobs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Art, Writing

  'Babbitt' (1922) ch. 14

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• That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Sex, Men

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Mistake, Past, Men

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• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  Larry Niven

  Moon, Technique, Want

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• The only decent bone in her body was mine.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Body, Bones, Women Bashing

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• Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mountain, Minorities, Woods

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.194, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

  Mark Strand

  Reading, Government, World

  Inscape Journal Interview, inscape.byu.edu.

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• Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.

  John Holdren

  Country, Mean, Order

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• The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

  John Holdren

  Design, Challenges, Essentials

  "White House Science Adviser Advocated 'De-Development' of the United States" by Christopher Neefus, www.cnsnews.com. July 28, 2009.

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• We live in a world of communication, everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Communication, Doors, People

  "Passion and pessimism" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2003.

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• I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

  Miep Gies

  Hero, Done, Persons

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