#decent

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#between #blinding #conclusion #decent #deduction

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#find #helicopter #i #job #nice

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#altered #always #angry #anything #come

It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years. ↗

— Drew Brees

#been #chance #decent #get #give

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#anything #coming #conviction #decent #done

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#indecent #maudlin #out #strength #through

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#cling #decent #fact #fully #fully alive

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

— Max Hastings

#decent #fiscal #government #hope #mandate

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#bring #decent #east #fighting #heroes