Quotes of: Decent-people Keyword

Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.

Bill Gross

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I wh...

Death Bringer

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

David Harris

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

Lauren Bacall

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

Sloane Crosley

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

Larry David

No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child.

Ellen J. Barrier

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

Michael Palin

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

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the...

Michael Palin

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Frances O'Grady

Avner: We can't afford to be that decent anymore. Robert: I don't know if we were ever that decent.

Munich

Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda bin diff'rent, eh?' 'Yeah, I s'pose,' said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed to be in a very strange mood. 'Family,...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

Linda Chavez

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Kathie Lee Gifford

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

James Fallows

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

Adam Gopnik

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income i...

Robert Higgs

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

Rory Stewart

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too mu...

Thomas P.M. Barnett