#respectable

My work is not great, but it's respectable. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

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I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I won't hurt anyone but myself. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. ↗

— Alexander Borodin

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I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!' ↗

— David Guetta

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My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#comets #cruel-colors #earthquakes #garden #night