#respectable

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. ↗

— John Updike

#art #change #convictions #customs #facts

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#jerry-bridges #respectable-sins #worldliness #respect

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. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#been #case #church #community #death

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

— Kim Cattrall

#chew #gossip #job #just #out

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

— Joseph Conrad

#illusions #profitable #respectable #safe

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

— Will Durant

#become #becomes #every #hatred #just

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#matrimony #respectable #road #wealth

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

#defects #ends #makes #making #men

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice. ↗

— Seth Green

#award #builders #contention #designers #even

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. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#be careful #careful #command #dispute #doors