Quotes About Respectable

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

For me, I just like to play respectable football.

I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

In case you've forgotten, that election made the hatred of Jews in this country socially respectable.

belonged to the respectable class of society, but must have been poor; for he depended for support on a trade which he learned in accordance with rabbinical custom; it was the trade of tent-making, very common in Cilicia, and not profitable except in large cities.

I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So

Sleep was the ideally work-compatible girl he ought to have married in the first place. Perfectly submissive, infinitely forgiving, and so respectable you could take her to church.

The slowness of change is always respectable and reasonable in the eyes of the ones who are only watching; it is a different matter for the ones who are in pain.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

Love is more respectable, more practical, more hardworking than I had ever suspected, but it lies close to the power to destroy. I have never before remotely felt myself to possess that power, and I am as haunted by it as if it were a gun in a nearby drawer.

I'm very comfortable in my skin. Yet, I won't do anything that's indecent, cheap or vulgar.

I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

'Soorma' was made on a budget of 22 core and we don't expect it to do a 100 crore business, but it has definitely earned respectable numbers. It's a more performance heavy film with a great story and content.

She was engaged in the task of defending her position in life, said Heyst. It's a very respectable task.

You mean my reputation is ruined? No wealthy gentlemen suing for my favours?' 'No respectable wealthy gentlemen suing for your favours,' he said.

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass.

This was perfectly true, and a very respectable view widely held by right-thinking people, who are largely recognizable as being right-thinking people by the mere fact that they hold this view.

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.

Précisément! The body—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?