Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

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

I've always been a decent free-throw shooter, but I've never been a 90 percent free-throw shooter. So, this is new territory for me. I've always been in the high 70's to mid-70's and that's pretty decent, but I've never been a great free-throw shooter.

I've also been sparring Sherman Williams and a few other decent heavyweights.

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

It was unfortunate, but we can still get a decent lead.

The sector is doing well. But they're highly leveraged. There will be a decent premium, around 10-to-15 percent, but not a blockbuster.

The secretary-general is not campaigning. This man does not have time to have a decent breakfast.

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.

They're telling them to make a move and make a decent move.

They try to pair amateurs with past champions, ... I had a decent record as an amateur, and they paired me with a guy who had a decent record as a pro.

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.

This is the time of year you want to be playing well. We didn't play well, but we had some guys gut our some pretty decent rounds.

This market is just one decent story away from destroying the bears,

Mark Brown

This is the most inexperienced teams I have had. Katie has been running well so far, and Ashli is a real solid runner. As the others gain experience I think we could be a decent team.

They're a real scrappy team, they play real hard. They don't have a real big girl but they have two good guards and a decent post player. I think we match up with them real well.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can picture him going up before town meeting and speaking for what the schools need. He's a decent man and he has a back bone.

I'd rather not have the 1-hole. She doesn't have too much early speed. But she's brave. She's got a decent shot. You've got to be a little lucky from the rail, luckier than if you have the outside.

I drive it straight, hit decent iron shots and the greens are pretty nice here. I know my way around.

Paul Chryst

And we thought we were going to be a decent team.