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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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
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
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
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
Criminals are the most decent and least offensive people among us.
— Ernesto Sabato
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
