Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile.

Michael Moriarty

I believe that Sean Quinn wouldn't be a man at all if he let someone steal his family's assets.

Sean Quinn

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Klug

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Nathan Myhrvold

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Joe Biden

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Zhuangzi

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Julianna Baggott

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.

Joel Madden

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Tom T. Hall

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

Tom Kristensen

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Horace Smith

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

Louis Farrakhan

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

Michael Scheuer