#decency

Maybe I owe you something too, human," she said, drawing her pistol. Butler almost reacted, but decided to give Holly the benefit of the doubt. Captain Short plucked a gold coin from her belt, flicking it fifty feet into the moonlit sky. With one fluid movement, she brought her weapon up and loosed a single blast. The coin rose another fifty feet, then spun earthward. Artemis somehow managed to snatch it from the air. The first cool movement of his young life. "Nice shot," he said. The previously solid disk now had a tiny hole in the center. Holly held out her hand, revealing the still raw scar on her finger. "If it wasn't for you, I would have missed altogether. No mech-digit can replicate that kind of accuracy. So, thank you too, I suppose." Artemis held out the coin. "No," said Holly. "You keep it, to remind you." "To remind me?" Holly stared at him frankly. "To remind you that deep beneath the layers of deviousness, you have a spark of decency. Perhaps you could blow on that spark occasionally." Artemis closed his fingers around the coin. It was warm against his palm. "Yes, perhaps. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#decency #holly-short #life

The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#connecting #decency #humanity #communication

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#funny #highlander #karen-marie-moning #spell-of-the-highlander #funny

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#everybody #had #hated #i #idea

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#about #buried #decency #get #healthy

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ↗

— Aeschylus

#gift #god #man #mind #most

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#better #decency #decent #enough #god

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#blacks #cherish #constitution #corrective #decency

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. ↗

— John McCain

#could #days #decency #dream #emulate

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#civilized society #decency #evolving #executing #inconsistent