#decent

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

We're from New York, so we have a decent following. ↗

— Josh Silver

#following #new #new york #york

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

— Charles W. Pickering

#airwaves #chance #decent #decent people #good

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

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

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

— Max Hastings

#decent #fiscal #government #hope #mandate