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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

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage. — Jan C. Ting

I think people can be very nice and charming without being decent human beings. — Claire Hennessy

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. — Stanley Walker

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it. — Rick Santorum

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical - as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist. — T.H. White

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being. — Marcus Aurelius

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically. — Noam Chomsky

Once Chance put away the charm he had in abundance, she was surprised to find he was actually a decent guy. Maybe she could be friends with him — Shyloh Morgan

They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named:
Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed. — G.K. Chesterton

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them — William F. Buckley Jr.

One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things. — Gillian Flynn

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.' — Paul Scholes

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them. — P.D. James

This is a neighborhood where underwear sags low. For instance, ole Mr Deutschman lives up here, who used to be upstanding and decent. — D.B.C. Pierre

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong. — Lynn Abbey

London used to be reasonably priced, clean, and a decent place to live. These days it's polluted and utterly unbearable — Munir Butt

A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes — Roy Bean

If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right. — Agatha Christie

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in, — Julie Andrews

You want to go to a show tonight? There's this band called Crucifictorious from Texas, and they're supposed to be decent. — Cindi Madsen

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq. — Charles Rangel

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. — Howard Zinn

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character. — Edward Zigler

Wherever it might be that good men like Smit go to when they die I hope very much that it has a decent library. — Christopher Leary

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

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

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. — Errol Flynn

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

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around. — David Foster Wallace

Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person. — Jojo Moyes

Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. — Daniel Kahneman

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

I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency.
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Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear. — Michael D. Higgins

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak. — Woody Allen

Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup for the car! — Romain Grosjean

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent — Nelson Mandela

There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives. — Neal A. Maxwell

Hakan ducked his head inside. "You decent?"
Pilar couldn't contain her smile. "Give me a second and I won't be. — Erin Kellison

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture. — Christopher Hitchens

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people. — Sloane Crosley

In my experience, there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea. — Jojo Moyes

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. — Robert A. Heinlein

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found. — Eminem

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

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

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret. — Lisa Kleypas

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life. — Timothy Keller

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. — William O. Douglas

Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without. — Jeff Cooper

I was a coward and a slave. I say this without the slightest embarrassment. Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. — Christopher Hitchens

When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence. — Tawni O'Dell

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. — Ruth Reichl

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn. — Eraldo Banovac

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar. — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

If you got it, flaunt it may be decent advice for prostitutes, but no one else. — Dov Davidoff

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent. — L. Ron Hubbard

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. — Steven J. Carroll

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist. — T.H. White

Where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. — Catherynne M Valente

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. — Frank Herbert

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average. — Satya Nadella

It's not decent to be good at everything. Three or four things at the most. Even that is pushing the bounds of good taste. — Nicola Yoon

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages. — Bernie Sanders

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth. — John Osborne

There is a world of good you can do without even realizing it, if you decide that today, just today, you're going to be decent to the people you meet. — Jack Tyler

As long as you don't stop producing guns, you can't be a decent country! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it. — Pele

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

I don't get my tees at a mall, Tess. No decent tee can be bought at a fuckin' mall. A good tee is bought during an experience. — Kristen Ashley

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. — Graydon Carter

Fucking hell, Livy. If you're going to nab a decent bloke, then you need to be a little more enthusiastic." She's — Jodi Ellen Malpas

It would be a shame to go out with a hot girl you can't have a decent conversation with! — Justin Bieber

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. — William Henry Harrison

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker. — Robert De Niro

Why can't you be decent to people?" she asked. "Fear," I said. — Charles Bukowski

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts. — Jean Kwok

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man ... — Margaret Halsey

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer. — Stieg Larsson

I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society. — Jessica Anthony

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

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. — Allen Ginsberg

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded. — Robert Boswell

We be decent thieves, not some politicals. We didn't try to attack the authorities. We was only stealing. — Andrzej Sapkowski

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another. — C.S. Lewis

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone. — Grant Heslov

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up. — Elihu Root

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith. — Richard Morris

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

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent. — Alexander Pushkin

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul. — Faith Popcorn

He was no prude, but he had those decent prejudices of which no self-respecting man can wholly rid himself, however broad-minded he may try to be. — P.G. Wodehouse

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else. — Jack Nicholson

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

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens! — Lucille Kallen

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. — Charles W. Pickering