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MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.
— Jim Propp
The two sides of the debate don't even mention that viewpoint, so far outside the bounds of respectable thought it lies.
— Anonymous
Games of chance fell outside the boundaries of urban reformers' definitions of respectable labor and amusement
— LaShawn Harris
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
— Oscar Wilde
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
— John Ortberg
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!
— B.R. Ambedkar
It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit
wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think YOU perfect, and you set yourself against it.
— Jane Austen
I just didn't want to leave the Cowboys when they were down. I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
— Tom Landry
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
— Frederick The Great
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
— L. Frank Baum
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
— Guy De Maupassant
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
— David Blunkett
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
— Alan Bennett
To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne.
— James A. Michener
The goal is to do things that are exciting and respectable.
— Jared Kushner
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
— Leslie Stephen
I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.
— J.B. Priestley
Visiting a brothel is respectable, the vicar's widow asks with her brows raised?" "They
— Jennifer Ashley
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.
— H.L. Mencken
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
— George MacDonald
The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
— Agatha Christie
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
— Joseph De Maistre
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
— Richard Diebenkorn
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
— Ice Cube
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable circles.
— Peter L. Bernstein
The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.
— Jude Morgan
Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.
— Billy Graham