Decent Quotes - Page 36

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

  John McCain

  President, United States, Scared

  "McCain: Obama not an Arab, crowd boos" by Jonathan Martin and Amie Parnes, www.politico.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

  Donald Miller

  Running, Jobs, Reality

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Self, Helping, Sufi

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• Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Heart, Suffering, Foundation

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• I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a world
  of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the
  ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Believe, Moving

  Speech at Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 31, 1960.

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• To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

  Ian Buruma

  Education, Jobs, Majority

  "Europe's traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism put to test after Paris terror attacks". www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2015.

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• It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Jobs, People, World

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• It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.

  David W. Orr

  Real, Technology, Issues

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.53, Island Press

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• While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

  James H. Cone

  Technological Development, Environmental, Bears

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• We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, War, Men

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

  Connor Franta

  Quality, Work In Progress, Quantity

  Connor Franta (2015). “A Work in Progress: A Memoir”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, People, Sick

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The way of presentation is different according to each religion. In theistic religions like Buddhism, Buddhist values are incorporated. In nontheistic religions, like some types of ancient Indian thought, the law of karma applies. If you do something good, you get a good result. Now, what we need is a way to educate nonbelievers. These nonbelievers may be critical of all religions, but they should be decent at heart.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Buddhist, Heart

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf, which means to succeed there has to be a partner. And the definition of partnership is someone willing to risk their lives in their home area to prevail because they think it's necessary to build a decent life and a better life for their people.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Home, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

  Jack Kirby

  Fighting, Odds, Ducks

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes, doing what he wants, working with people that he likes, and enjoying himself to his very old age.

  Jack Kirby

  Kids, People, Guy

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• God has blessed me in many ways. Money is not the greatest blessing you can have, but I literally had absolutely nothing. The first message that I preached at Life in the Word, I had to borrow a suit from my pastor's wife, because I didn't have any decent clothes, and I was driving a 20-year-old car. We went through a lot of years of having nothing, sleeping in McDonald's parking lots, because we didn't have money to stay all night in a hotel. But, like anybody else who works hard and is diligent and doesn't quit and doesn't give up, there is a day the blessings come.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Blessed, Sleep

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• To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, School, Safety

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Children, School

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not only does that person have to apologize; sometimes they have to go away forever. Go away, bad person. My analysis of this is that most of us don't do anything decent in our life. I'm not saying we're evil. I'm just saying we don't make a contribution, so the way they [liberals] think they're making a contribution is to point at the bad people [which] is somehow even more pathetic.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

  Stewart Brand

  Earth, Problem, Surface

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

  Angela Davis

  People, Criticize, Decent Life

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

  Barry Commoner

  Country, Ghetto, Simple

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• I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.

  Wale

  Independent, Successful, Men

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Character, People

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