If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.
One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.
I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches
I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.
I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.
Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.
What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
