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Letter "D" » decent
«He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.»
«Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.»
«In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman»
Author: Sinclair Lewis
(Writer)
| Keywords:
booze, bummed, bums, businessman, decent, feeding, indistinguishable, painter, shabbier, shabby, spaghetti
«If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
decent, houses, longed-for, longed, pleasurable, production, self respect, societies
«It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body»
«I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.»
Author: Ray Charles
(Pianist, Singer)
| Keywords:
bottom line, decent, meal, sleeping car, sleep in, the bottom line
«It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands»
Author: Andre Gide
| About:
Army,
Persuasion,
Violence
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, decent, fall from, fellows, massacre, persuade, The Soldier, urged
«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
at present, bird, decent, egg, egged, egging, eggs, egg on, fly, flying bird, go bad, go on, hard, harder, hatched, hatches, hatching, indefinitely, in ordinary, jollier, jolly, on sight, ordinary, present, remaining, sight, sighting, The Eggs, To Fly, turn, would-be
«Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
ashamed, decent, the government
«Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men»
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