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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

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

Of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, — Joseph Conrad

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

Good plan," Freddy was saying. "Let's get some decent sleep. Tomorrow we can shake our gravy asses into town and do some sluething. — Ali Sparkes

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

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke

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

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals. — Ryan Reynolds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness. — Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent. — George Benson

My darling father gave me some decent getaway sticks - my legs are OK. — Julie Bowen

I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on. — Courteney Cox

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money. — James A. Michener

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

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America. — Bob Casey Jr.

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those. — Tim Henman

I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation. — Martina Navratilova

There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent — Djuna Barnes

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s. — John Frankenheimer

Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. — Stephen Jay Gould

I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables. — Abby Wambach

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

You can fool some of the people some of the time
and that's enough to make a decent living. — W.C. Fields

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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