#respectable

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#nothing #nowadays #once #pretext #profound

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#dialogue #i #i write #only #plays

The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#respectable-sins #worldliness #life

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I won't hurt anyone but myself. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#respect

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. ↗

— Alexander Borodin

#love #make #music #people #respectable

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!' ↗

— David Guetta

#businessman #career #education #every #finally

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#also #aside #because #boxing #capability

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#another #architect #attentive #charming #deeply

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#classes #gardens #may #respectable #these

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#books #bookshelves #claim #every #exist