Respectable Quotes

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

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

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

Since when was genius found respectable?

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it.

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.