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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

George Bernard Shaw

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It went pretty well. We had a little bit of trouble last night. All in all, it was a good race, and we managed a respectable finish. Without the problems with the engine during the night we could have finished in the top 10 very easily. We kept ourselves clean, and we ran a good pace. We didn't overrun the car.

Rob Stewart

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Bertrand Russell

What amazes me is that no matter how obscure or generic a TV show might be, there's always someone who'll buy it. As long as the studios recognize this, they can manufacture modest quantities and generate respectable sales.

Gord Lacey

Considering who we played against, this is a very respectable. The team we played yesterday was 18-2. We beat a team ranked nationally. (It was a) great experience. Hopefully, it will transfer over to league.

Bill Dillon

If all you want out of work is to provide means for your existence, that's fine. But unions are here to obtain some legal norms that make work more respectable.

Bernard Thibault

Through 10 holes, he was close to the lead. He had a respectable tournament, but we've got to have more guys doing that.

John Hackney

I told them to forget the last 16 minutes and go out and play hard for the next 16 and try to make it respectable.

Rob Shepard

Any time you're above .500 at first singles, that's a very respectable year. To have four singles players .500 or above, that's pretty good.

Jay Pacelli

We want to earn our respect back from teams. Because we haven?t been too respectable in the past.

Kenny Riley

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

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Tom Stoppard

They're not police officers, but they still have to be respectable and well dressed.

Officer Alexander Mancone

We definitely are cognizant of what happens in other entities, and we try to be respectable of that. But with the school board we have to look at what will help us to keep within the (state) requirements.

Scott Niven

Chris has had a fantastic weekend. To finish in the top six on his first Monte Carlo is a major achievement and he's done it at a very respectable pace.

David Lapworth

The Campaign for a Cleaner Congress is calling for congress, starting with Ney and (Texas Rep. Tom) DeLay, to do some things that will help restore congress to a more respectable position.

Jack Burgess

Interestingly, the forecast for December may be little changed from the previous month, around 3.7%, bringing the average for 2005 to less than 4.0%, a highly respectable figure.

Colen Garrow

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

James Robinson

This is what we were expecting. George Washington is a respectable team, but we knew we wanted to beat them by a large margin. I'm glad we had easier competition after coming back from California the previous weekend.

Holly Hatton

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Hortense Calisher

We expect a contract with a respectable wage increase. We are willing to negotiate.

Detlef Wetzel

I was proud of my girls for fighting in the second half and making it respectable. We made them call a timeout [which] gave the girls some confidence. We have a bunch of juniors, so that will give them confidence for next year.

Leslie Davis

For the third consecutive year, we were able to achieve a respectable margin in the typically difficult first quarter, a feat which had been an elusive target for us prior to 2004.

Kirk Thompson

[I'll probably settle for re-reading Percy, for finding that wonderful passage near the end about the] more respectable than respectable ... his forehead is an ambiguous sienna color and pied: It is impossible to be sure that he received ashes.

Ash Wednesday

That's really respectable for his first time at national championships.

Aldo Radamus

The most respectable wide receiver in the National football league is Terrell Owens. You don't see this kind disgusting act from him.

Dan Bellack

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

We prepared for Royal like we would for East Valley or Connell, because they are a respectable team.

Doug Boyer

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Howard Thurman

I've been so bloody respectable and responsible... I'm going to be a bloody old nuisance.

Neil Kinnock

By and large, the average salary increases employers offered to new college graduates were respectable, and some were standouts.

Marilyn Mackes

This is a very respectable movement, this is about saving lives and that is too important to be polarized.

Masood Khan

Economists are expecting things to gradually improve but realize that we are in a tougher environment now. I expect that 3 to 5 years from now we'll have some respectable gains of 5 percent to 10 percent annualized returns, but don't build a plan for anything better than that.

Russell Kinnel

I thought we were respectable against Morrison.

Dick Bennett

Monday, we came out and played pretty decent. When Tuesday came around, we played in the rain for about an hour and a half. We did not do as well during that. We finished in seventh, which is respectable, but we know we are capable of doing better.

Kurt Thomas

Our top line growth was more than respectable. Our bottom line growth, however, was not.

Frank Newman

We had a respectable year last season. We had some very good wins. However, I thought there were a couple of matches along the way we should have won.

Don Reid

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

Jason Maynard

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

Fanny Burney

A surprising number of respectable people, which includes the press corps, diplomats, civil servants, and the military, too, were involved, to some degree or other, in both drugs and gold.

Robert Stone

It was a respectable day. But after the (Fed) decision tomorrow, I think we can do better. I think the Street is braced for a no-rate-cut, no-rate-hike move from the Fed.

Larry Wachtel

The team score was respectable, but it was not the results the kids were hoping to have here.

Jack Foster

Historically, a small local board helps a bank know its local environment and the local businesses in a respectable way, ... But the 27 banks in the report were large multi-state or international banks.

Mark Watson

We're playing better as a team. This was more respectable than the first time we saw them.

Sarah Olson

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Jane Austen

Y'all may know, this is my last (Masters). It feels good to walk off having played a respectable round.

Charles Coody

We keep the taunts clean and respectable. One of us is going to eat crow that night.

Stephanie Young

Most of these kids are respectable. I can say that kids here … from the caliber I see, it's probably a B. It could be better, but it is good.

Orlando Perez

Suter is putting together a really respectable season. He's putting together quality times, a little better than last season.

Scott Brooker

It looks like a lack of bad news has brought out a little short-covering. It's a respectable open after the last couple of days we've had, but I'm hard-pressed to call it any trend.

Bryan Piskorowski

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Joseph Marie De Maistre

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There was so much brush in the area, and you'd have not-respectable people hanging out all the time, ... I'm sure there was drug dealing happening, and I know there were underage kids drinking and throwing their beer cans everywhere. Now it looks so much better.

Standing Bear

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

We're proof you can make a respectable business in a hard neighborhood and have it thrive in good and bad times.

Tim Wilson

We had to play a perfect game to stay in it. If not for the injuries, there's a chance of us at least making it respectable.

Peter Gordon

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

H. H. Munro

This is not bad news. After all, Nokia gave a very strong performance in the first quarter, and its market share surged. A 35-percent share is very respectable.

Jussi Hyoty

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

Flann O'brien

The publication of these ideas in a respectable American journal has had an explosive effect. Even those Russian journalists and analysts who are not prone to hysteria or anti-Americanism took it as an outline of the official position of the U.S. Administration.

Yegor Gaidar

Their service is respectable, but putting them together - it was uncomfortable for the city.

Matthew Mccaffery

We need to finally get a respectable income.

Frank Montgomery

Quayle has given a broad sense of credibility to Cerberus. Having a respectable person like Quayle earns the trust of people who doubt the company.

Yoshihiko Miyauchi

The market has had a respectable run-up since its January 24 lows, and today you're seeing some profit taking.

Joe Sunderman

We stayed with them the whole way. Seven goals on a program like that is respectable.

Jeff Goldberg

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Roni Java

We look at the draft as a chance to build our team, but we also look at the other avenues. We think 33 is a respectable number. But again, we want to take advantage of all possibilities of building a team.

Ted Sundquist

We're hoping to get the program back to respectable. I think we've taken the first step. We're feeling good about that. We have a good nucleus of kids coming back.

Erik Zaidel