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Quotes About Decent

I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.
~ Trent Reznor
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
While I fundamentally reject the notion that anyone who owned other human beings was either good, moral, or decent, Francis Scott Key left absolutely no doubt that he was a stone-cold bigot. He came from generations of plantation-owning bigots. They got wealthy off of it.
~ Shaun King
Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.
~ Jim Ratcliffe
We live in a great state filled with creative, community minded, hard-working, decent people. And what they want from us is opportunity, possibility and hope.
~ Charlie Baker
Public housing's original purpose was to give shelter not to those too poor to afford it but to those who could afford decent housing but couldn't find it because none was available.
~ Richard Rothstein
public housing was mostly for working- and lower-middle-class white families. It was not heavily subsidized, and tenants paid the full cost of operations with their rent. Public housing's original purpose was to give shelter not to those too poor to afford it but to those who could afford decent housing but couldn't find it because none was available.
~ Richard Rothstein
You know that you can't predict and you can't expect that you should have predicted. You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.
~ Robert B. Parker
Whatever passably decent treatment Margaret had had from him was the result of a temporary victory of fear over irritation and/or pity over boredom.
~ Kingsley Amis
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
~ Sam Harris
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
~ Zara Larsson
The Commonwealth Games here are a model for what sport can, and should, be. It's an incredible environment and an amazing atmosphere. Without any doubt, they have lived up to the mantra of humanity, equality and decency.
~ Laurel Hubbard
I'm a huge Bulls fan. I like an emotional backstory while watching sports. In my mind, all the players on the Bulls are really nice, decent guys. Especially that Derrick Rose.
~ Cecily Strong
Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.
~ Tucker Carlson
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
If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.
~ Mary Beard
If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'
~ Robert Ben Garant
I made a decent debut in Bollywood with 'Dum Maaro Dum.'
~ Rana Daggubati
A decent player doesn't automatically make a decent manager, I know that. But I will do everything I possibly can.
~ Michael Carrick
Decent, hard-working Labour MPs have been targeted by Corbyn fanatics in an attempt to purge the party of anyone who doesn't support their narrow, divisive ideology.
~ Anna Soubry
He went on to explain that "the greatest merit of Chernyshevsky lies not only in showing that any right-minded and truly decent person must be a revolutionary, but also something still more important: he showed what sort of person a revolutionary should be, what rules of conduct he should follow, how he should proceed to his goal, and by what means he should attain it."[18]
~ Robert C. Tucker
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