#decent

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

— Thomas Mann

#decent #die #family #heard #i

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#brat #child #decent #easier #guidance

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal. ↗

— Karl Rove

#culture #decent #hopeful #ideal #important

Our eyes met from across the street. She was wrapped in the Earth’s mantle; I was shrouded in the cloak of heaven. Together our indecent exposure echoed through the air. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #indecent-exposure #random #funny

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

Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution. ↗

— Tipper Gore

#children #congressional #develop #federally #finding

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. ↗

— John Hurt

#describe #everything #ferment #going #happens

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. ↗

— Chris Bailey

#any #associated #band #been #best

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. ↗

— Sean Bean

#bad guy #been #compassionate #decent #english

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.' ↗

— Tommy Bond

#bobby #color #decent #good #had