Merit Quotes - Page 39

• For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

  Amber Heard

  Scripts, Picks

  "Drive Angry 3D - Amber Heard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

  Charles Stross

  Pride, Guides, Personal Pride

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

  Pope Gregory I

  Wonderful, Reason, Proof

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• Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed. Being self-righteous, one is not respected. Boasting of self, one's merit is unrecognized. Glorifying of self, one loses the opportunity for greatness. From the viewpoint of Tao These represent imperfect Te, Valued as are filth or disease.

  Laozi

  Opportunity, Greatness, Self

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• Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Reason, Cases

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• There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

  Sax Rohmer

  Exercise, Special, Use

  Sax Rohmer (2015). “Fu-Manchu - Emperor Fu-Manchu”, p.176, Titan Books

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• A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.

  Kenneth Williams

  Perfect, Achievement, Arabia

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• We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.

  Callie Khouri

  Wind, Numbers, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Omnipotence, Appreciate

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

  Michael Arrington

  Sex, Rocks, Color

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• In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Unjust

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• Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.

  Andre Derain

  Fire, Light, Method

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• Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.

  Mitchell Baker

  Cutting, Views, Decision

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of citizens. They cannot be known beforehand, and they melt back into the multitiude after each trial.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Citizens, Trials, Lasts

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• I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His #‎ love and power to save.

  Ulisses Soares

  Jesus, War, Sacrifice

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• The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Needs, Links

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2017). “Joy Upon Joy: An Advent Devotional”, Whitaker House

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• A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Our World, Goal, Atheism

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• The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

  John Calvin

  Names, Christ

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• The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

  Galen

  Language, Chiefs, Term

  Galen (1916). “Galen On the Natural Faculties”

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• Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Player, Soldier, Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.233, Modern Library

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• As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of human rights, and of giving it a form without example, which, as they believe, unites the greatest national strength with the best security for public order and individual liberty, they owe to themselves, to their posterity and to the world, a preservation of the system in its purity, its symmetry, and its authenticity.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.138

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• These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

  E. Lockhart

  Guy, Needs, Kind

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.34, Hot Key Books

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• We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Helping, Forget You

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.273, Jane Austen

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• Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

  Jane Austen

  Done, Unjust, Forget

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.402, BookCaps Study Guides

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