29 quotes found
“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to eac...”
“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.”
“Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.”
“Integrity is never given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.”
“Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.”
“If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!”
“Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere br...”
“I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,So I trust, too.”
“Do right simply because it is right.”
“Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.”
“REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.”
“Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warnt no harm to borrow thing...”
“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as "common decency". I treated somebody well for a little while, or eve...”
“Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind.”
“Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.”
“remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way...”
“Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.”
“Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.”
“Decency is such a rare thing in this world, and it can only be repaid with loyalty.”
“Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.”
