Voltaire

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

French Writer

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

American Journalist

Mike Birbiglia

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

American Comedian

Robert Fortune

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

Scottish Scientist

Tom Robbins

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

American Author

Lorrie Moore

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

American Writer

Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

American Actor

Moliere

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

French Playwright

Le'Veon Bell

For me, I just like to play respectable football.

American Athlete

Maurice Sendak

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

American Artist

Used to describe something meeting society's standards, often implying tradition and conservatism.

Social Expectations

Shows desire to be approved or seen positively by others, especially in public contexts.

Approval Seek

Often hints at moral or ethical goodness beyond just social norms.

Ethical Hint

Indicates that something is sufficiently good, often meeting specific standards or expectations.

Quality Assurance

Implies a satisfactory level, but not necessarily outstanding or exceptional.

Baseline Standard

Can refer to a beginner's commitment to reach a level deemed competent or acceptable.

Entry-Level Competency

Implies the quantity or degree is large enough to be taken seriously or considered significant.

Noteworthy Amount

Suggests going beyond the minimal or expected level in measurements or achievements.

Surpass Minimal

Used when the result or impact is clearly noticeable and has practical significance.

Perceptible Impact

 What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you're not a bad person,

Glenn Greenwald: Why...

 many scientists thought that all mammalian brains, including the human brain, were made in the same way, with a number of neurons that was always proportional to the size of the brain. This means that two brains of the same size, like these two, with a respectable 400 grams, should have similar numbers of neurons.

What is so special about...

 And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking.

A kinder, gentler...

 multimedia services the audio basically from the satellite directly to a radio set and then the multimedia so you connect that radio set on computer and then it becomes like a modem that can download data and pretty pretty respectable speeds first voice itself

WorldSpace: The world’s...

 and found that it predicted pregnancy with a respectable 70% accuracy, though it couldn't reliably tell the sex of the baby. Scientists hypothesized that the test worked because pregnant women's urine contains more estrogen, which can promote seed growth.

How do pregnancy tests...

 It's a bit too big, and it hasn't actually allowed these things like dynamic venture capital and commercialization to actually be able to really be as fruitful as it could. And even really respectable newspapers, some that I'm actually subscribed to,

Mariana Mazzucato:...

 in those few areas of the brain that lose cells at a respectable rate, especially neurons, but we don't want to replace them any faster than that -- or not much faster anyway, because replacing them too fast would degrade cognitive function.

A roadmap to end aging PIPE...

 supported by dodgy science. The problem is that, although there are many good scientists working on what they think are human pheromones, and they're publishing in respectable journals, at the basis of this,

The smelly mystery of...

 the true value of science fiction to me threats in the fact that it permits speculation and makes it respectable such speculation is important today more than ever before tomorrow more than today

Science Fiction Inspires...

 His first, in the town of Innsbruck, didn’t gain much traction with the local authorities, who disapproved of his harsh questioning of respectable citizens and shut down his trials.

Respectable