Quotes of: Decent-people Keyword

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

Revolution

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles W. Pickering

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

Frances O'Grady

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Dennis Prager

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

Bob Casey, Jr.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.

James Earl Jones

To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the...

Georges Bataille

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

Doctor in Petticoats

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Fletcher: Damn you, Senator. You promised me those men would be decently treated. Senator Lane: They were decently treated. They were decently fed and then they were decently shot. Those men are common outlaws, nothing more.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

Mike Birbiglia

People have all this resentment against their parents for fucking them up, but they never realize, the minute they have a kid, that they cease being the child so fondly victimized in their hearts and start being the benighted perpetrators of unfathom...

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

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

Graydon Carter

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Jonathan Haidt

Surely, our greatest parental hope is that our children attain a state of righteousness. It is the only sure road to happiness. But to attain such a state requires that they be decent as well as compliant. I know many, many young people who are not "...

Love

I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.

Robert Boswell

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of Am...

John le Carre

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

Michael Arad

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Carlos Santana