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Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! — Veronica Purcell

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent. — Viktor E. Frankl

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. — Joe Meno

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. — Rene Balcer

I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms. — George Vecsey

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

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't. — Frances O'Grady

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons. — Thomas Piketty

Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee. — Junot Diaz

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist. — Paul Gauguin

Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction. — Warren Ellis

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. — Mary Ellen Chase

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family. — Dick Gephardt

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband. — Michael Ian Black

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art. — Robert Barry

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. — Charles Wheelan

I also got the impression that having a lot of money can turn a decent person into an asshole. — Susane Colasanti

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

Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet — Jack Kerouac

Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us. — Ernesto Sabato

I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium. — Zach Johnson

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

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't. — Jessica Lange

Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought. — Zoe Marriott

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

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

A decent moustache can intimidate a man, while a great moustache can frighten an army. — Anya Wylde

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private. — Michel De Montaigne

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

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days. — David Benioff

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Sometimes decent people must do indecent things. — John Hennessy

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about. — Anton Chekhov

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. — Alexander Payne

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Anonymous

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic. — Gordon Strachan

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

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. — Hector Hugh Munro

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. — Dan Simmons

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons. — Tony Snow

Are you decent?" Tick-Tick called through the door.
I said what I was supposed to: "No, but I'm dressed. — Emma Bull

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand. — Idina Menzel

Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living. — Marjorie Bowen

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service. — John Adams

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction. — Don Roff

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

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. — Lauren Bacall

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon

I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions. — Agatha Christie

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

They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company. — John Le Carre

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food. — Gaines Adams

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice. — Craig Brown

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC. — Michael Crichton

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people? — Rachel Vincent

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly. — Sophocles

If only Mexico paid their workers a decent wage. — Luis Alberto Urrea

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. — Jack Nicholson

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

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals. — Sydney J. Harris

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

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

Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss. — Marlon James

Most folks are basically decent. If given the chance they will live and let live. But our world has been hijacked by the fear-driven rapacious. — Mark Landau

She was being nice, and Oscar was always reminding me that most people are fundamentally decent and that it doesn't pay to think badly of them. — Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down. — Alicia Keys

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you? — Steve Garfield

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

... everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget - the design of life; and good when we are forgotten - the design of death. — Djuna Barnes

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. — Orson Scott Card

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry

Even decent people can have awful friends. — Anna Jarzab

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

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody. — Maria Augusta Von Trapp

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did. — C.S. Lewis

Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody. — Greg Gutfeld

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. — James M. Barrie

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

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time. — Kitty Carlisle

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero. — Joe Abercrombie

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez

Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment. — Gaylord Nelson

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity. — Pope Francis

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

A decent IP attorney is one, who meets client's requirements; A good IP attorney is one, who helps clients secure business success. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

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

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I stood up, and my pants ripped completely across the seam. It was inevitable, but for once in my life, my timing had been decent. — Joan Bauer

I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit. — Harold J. Laski

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. — Charles W. Pickering

Tell 'em to God. Don' go burdenin' other people with your sins. That ain't decent. — John Steinbeck

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf. — Liz Carpenter