Decent Quotes - Page 40

• I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Thinking, People, Pressure

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• We don't want to hurt anybody, kill anybody, build any prisons, or build police. We want to make it unnecessary for people to steal - so they'll have access to medical care, health care, decent housing, all people, all over the world. As long as you don't share your resources, you are going to have trouble

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Long, People

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• These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

  Edgar Degas

  Simple, Keyholes, Concern

  "Degas bronze for auction" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2002.

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• To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

  Alec Baldwin

  Real, War, Party

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

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• I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  Ian Mcewan

  Men, Play, Watches

  "Ian McEwan: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Believe, Book

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.

  Colin Powell

  Hurt, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

  Tony Snow

  Fall, Government, People

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• Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Wish, Abhorrent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage

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• 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.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Irony, Economics, Bases

  Kevin D Williamson (2010). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

  Warren Buffett

  Hero, Years, Games

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• We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

  Charlie Munger

  Outcomes, Happens, Knows

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• We may well have a competitive advantage buying decent businesses at decent prices. But they won't be fabulous businesses and fabulous prices. There's too much competition and money out there, with many buyout specialists.

  Charlie Munger

  Competition, May, Too Much

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• I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Even though there are some people who do very well, like Marc Rich-who plainly has never had any decent ethics, or seldom anyway. But in the end, Warren Buffett has done better than Marc Rich-in money-not just in reputation.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, People, Done

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

  Timothy Keller

  If There Is A God, Decent Life, Ifs

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions”, p.30, Penguin

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• A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

  George Mikes

  Criminals, May, Way

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• Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

  Karl Rove

  Hopeful, Important, Culture

  'FOX News Sunday', www.foxnews.com. November 8, 2004.

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

  Sherman Alexie

  Hero, People, Underrated

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• ... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Hero, Thinking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

  Howard Zinn

  Lying, People, Common Sense

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.

  John Yarmuth

  Memories, People, Bakers

  "Howard Baker: Courageous Leader and Congressional Cutup" by Rep. John Yarmuth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2014.

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• There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

  Al Stewart

  Rocks, Historical, World

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• If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, were not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

  Tim Wise

  Jobs, Real, School

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• No matter the location of the build site, the religion, gender or ethnicity of the homeowners or volunteers, there is a sense of authentic community that links Habitat partners. It's exactly this kind of shared commitment that has sustained Habitat for three decades, and, similarly, it will be a renewed commitment that's necessary to meet the challenges ahead. I don't have to remind you that the need for decent housing is immense. Our tenacity is equally vast.

  Jonathan Reckford

  Commitment, Ethnicity, Volunteer

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