Decent Quotes

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

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

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

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

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.