Deserve Quotes - Page 36

• Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Hurt, Ignorance, Poetry

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• We do not earn or deserve the love of God; we already have it.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  God, God Love

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• He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases!
  [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage
  Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Insult, Increase, Outrage

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• Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Phones

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

  Morgan Freeman

  May, Kind, Internet

  "Freeman lobbies against piracy". Interview with Farah Nayeri, www.deseretnews.com. June 4, 2005.

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• I feel like girls always deserve flowers; it's just a nice thing to do. If you want to make your girlfriend smile, send her flowers!

  Bella Thorne

  Girl, Nice, Flower

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There's a lot of unrest. There are a lot of people who are unhappy. I don't want to say I'm their hero, but a lot of people have said that... It's like this in every job, I think. There's certain people who are afforded privileges and maybe, maybe don't deserve them.

  CM Punk

  Jobs, Hero, Thinking

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Mean, Keys, Grace

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Appreciation, Eye, Views

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• And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.

  John F. Kerry

  Senior, Responsibility, Thinking

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• A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  History, Doe, Historian

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• I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

  Storm Jameson

  Children, Silly, Use

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• As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mother, Country, War

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• The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, People

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Ambition, Settling, Ifs

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.

  Bessie Head

  Thinking, Needs, Genius

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

  James Lipton

  Language, Protection, Natural

  James Lipton (1991). “An Exaltation of Larks”, Viking Adult

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• Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Flower, Plants Growing, Color

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• Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

  Khalil Gibran

  Self Esteem, Insults You, Praise

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Perseverance, Struggle

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

  Owen Feltham

  Noble, Benefits, May

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• You deserve good things, and I want to be one of them.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Want, Good Things

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• For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

  Kevin McCarty

  Karma, Past, May

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• Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

  Zelda Popkin

  Husband, Infidelity

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• One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

  Carolyn Hart

  May, Fruit, Reputation

  Carolyn Hart (2009). “Dead Man's Island”, p.41, Crimeline

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