Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's a good number. It shows that manufacturing is recovering and it bodes well for the economy that the sector is recording decent rates of growth despite the strong currency.

Everyone's a decent shooter anyway, so the free-throw line is pretty much a given. At the end of practice we're always doing drills to shoot free throws.

BA is strategically focusing on profitable traffic, and that means it's turning away a lot of people who are prepared to pay a decent fare to transfer,

Phyllis Schlafly

As our government takes democracy to unlikely places all over the world, how about a decent respect for self-government at home!

That thing that is sometimes called the responsibility of intellectuals is the responsibility of every decent person.

RJ Mitte

'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

Ned Yost

Even though we've been struggling, I think we have a decent lineup. I think we will score some runs. Maybe today is a start for us.

Phil Garner

It's surprising, but he only gave up one decent hit. The others just rolled through the infield.

James A. Michener

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

Thanks to a fairly decent IQ, I can write on virtually any subject, and have done so in order to make a living.

Chad Campbell

As far as hanging out, not really. But we always talk to each other on the range. Sometimes we play practice rounds. You know, (we're) decent friends.

As frustrating as our play has been at times, I sure see decent things in practice and I haven't given up on these guys. This is the time of year ? forget about what's happened in the past. These next two or three weeks is when you want to be playing good.

On the whole, I am pleased with the progress so far. We are in pretty decent mid-season form.

North Providence is young. They're inexperienced. They have some goal scorers. But I think we have the skating advantage. They're obviously a decent team or they wouldn't be in the playoffs. We don't take any team lightly. But I think we have the speed and depth advantage.

Do you want your kids to get a decent job? ... Do you want them to have a high quality of life and opportunity? Do you want them to live in a good house?

Edward Gibbon

Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

They have not had much football lately and I want everyone to have a decent level of fitness.

There's a pretty decent outlook for the longer term. But then there's $2 million in (annual) revenues - that's not going to do it.

Maurice Ager

A lot of times we played right into their hands. I feel if I would have played halfway decent we would have come out with the victory.

The young kid, Charlie, did a pretty decent job overall. He handled himself well in situations where he was in trouble. He was able to get out of trouble and maintain his cool.

They need to save harder and for longer than ever before to put down a decent deposit on a house.

John Lawson

They dropped from 1:41 to 1:37 - that's a pretty decent drop. So they're doing pretty well.

This elevated growth rate in the economy should prevent a replay of the jobless recovery. If we have two strong quarters of growth, then employment will start to show decent gains in the third quarter.

Michael Brown

It's not mean-spirited humor, it's just good satire. I go in with my eyes open that they will do whatever they can to make fun of me. But I hope people see I'm human and a decent guy.

Paul Andrews

They had experience, and it showed. Overall I thought we had a decent game.

They got us down the stretch at their place. We feel like we played a decent game, we just made some turnovers late in the game and they capitalized.

They didn't want to have just a decent season, they wanted to do something special.

There will be a million decent players at USC next year. It will be like being a freshman at Carlsbad all over again.

There were less subscriber losses at AOL. They did a decent job there.

You really need a short game to survive out there, especially when you hit it as poorly as I did. But I'm happy to get off to a decent start.

You might say he pitched a decent game because he gave up three runs. But he was in trouble every inning and he was probably one hit here or there from being out earlier than what he was.

Ivan Ljubicic

He played quite well and he was the one who was pushing me over the limits. When it's like that, it's very difficult to make a statement out there, to make a decent match.