To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims, this can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.
Iraq may still have a decent outcome. . . but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.
Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.
An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym. ' I literally never did anything.
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.