Decent Quotes - Page 31

• If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Trying, Succeed, Persons

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• Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.

  Bob Burg

  Coffee, Thinking, Keys

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• By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

  C.P. Snow

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

  William Henry Harrison

  Government, Presidential, Examination

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• The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Selfish, Years

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• Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Agreement, Average

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

  Jeremy Piven

  Kindness, Mistake, Weakness

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.

  Bill Nighy

  Clothes, Want, Suits

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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• The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Innocent Person, Criminals

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• The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, World, Betrayed

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.556

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• Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Expression, Purple, Style

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

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• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

  Edmund Burke

  Unjust, Ancestry, Birth

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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• There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.

  John Ruskin

  Latin, Power, Drawing

  John Ruskin (1859). “The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners”, p.4

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• I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

  Claude Monet

  Long, People, Exhibitions

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Thinking

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• My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

  Emily Carr

  Determination, White, Mountain

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.99, D & M Publishers

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• People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Party, Common Sense

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• When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.

  Liz Miller

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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• These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

  Fouad Ajami

  Country, Writing, Two

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• Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

  Robert Genn

  Style, Handicaps, Fine

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• Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Power, People

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• President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

  Roy Wilkins

  War, Men, Rights

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• A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

  Arno Hintjens

  Boss, Ashamed, Humans

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