#respectable

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#books #days #infamous #listen #made

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

#bravery #courage #doing #escaping #greatness

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. ↗

— Will Rogers

#big #big enough #build #enough #respectable

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

— Thomas Mann

#decent #die #family #heard #i

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

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

#respectable-sins #worldliness #life

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#family #her #resided #respectable

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#classes #gardens #may #respectable #these

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. ↗

— Wolfman Jack

#become #enough #i #lasted #long

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#awards #because #buyers #comic #comics