(26 quotes found)
“To FIFA such transactions fall well short of minimum standards of decency. We can no longer merely accept them. Nor shall we.”
Sepp Blatter
“Decency and common sense are not distributed evenly at birth.”
Assya Moussaid
“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
A. A. Milne
“They violate elementary norms of decency.”
Yuri Andropov
“There's got to be fairness, and there's got to be decency here. And if I'm overprotective of players, which some say I am, so be it. Then that's what I'll be.”
Bud Selig
“[We have] a prolonged and seemingly unending period of a lack of decency. A fish doesn't know it's wet. We're numb and we can't even feel it.”
Zell Miller
“It's important to get the new stadium for the club to survive financially. In the name of common decency the fans need a roof over their heads.”
Mark McGhee
“a matter of decency.”
Joe Dunn
“The cops are doing the best they can. They treat me so kindly and with such decency.”
Daniel Horowitz
“He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.”
Oscar Wilde