Decent Quotes - Page 28

• I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

  Michael Eisner

  Shoes, Levels, Pairs

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• I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

  Scott McClellan

  Believe, White, People

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, PublicAffairs

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• I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Scum Of The Earth, People, Moral

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• My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Dollars, Tables

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• Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.

  John Ringo

  Islamic, Thinking, Chinese

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• Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.

  Al Gore

  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

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• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Communication, Dark, Light

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

  Steve Albini

  Eye, Way, Taste

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• It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

  Jerry Kramer

  Children, Successful, Parent

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• I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.

  Harry S. Truman

  Prisoner, Wells, Fellows

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.26, SIU Press

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• I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

  James A. Michener

  Plato, Thinking, People

  "The World Is My Home". Book by James A. Michener, 1991.

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• Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Enough, Dare, Decency

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.613, 谷月社

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• People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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

  Charles Wheelan

  Government, Choices, Democracy

  Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Giving, World

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• If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Book, Smoking

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• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Jobs, Nice, Want

  "Felix Baumgartner 'recuperating' after surviving jump from the edge of space" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

  Paul Tsongas

  Mean, Thinking, Generations

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• 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.

  Johnny Vegas

  Dad, People, Half

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• The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Wheat, Milk

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people.

  George Carlin

  Names, People, Abortion

  "Back in Town". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

  Coventry Patmore

  Doe, Different, Saint

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• Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

  Kevin Kline

  Thinking, People, President

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• Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

  Agnes Smedley

  Environment, Made, Inarticulate

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• When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

  Jennifer Beals

  Character, Thinking, Play

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