Deserving Quotes
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The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
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Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
josé saramago— A vida é assim, está cheia de palavras que não valem a pena, ou que valeram e já não valem, cada uma que ainda formos dizendo tirará o lugar a outra mais merecedora, que o seria não tanto por si mesma, mas pelas consequências de tê-la dito.
— The Cave p. 28 (Vintage 2003)
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., Turtle v. Hartwell (1795), 6 T. R. 429.
He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.
aeschines— 99
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
vanna bonta— Vanna Bonta on the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. BonNova | X PRIZE Foundation official
He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.
george borrow— Ch. 68 (Lavengro (1851))
Fortune, the great commandress of the world,Hath divers ways to advance her followers:To some she gives honour without deserving,To other some, deserving without honour.
George Chapman— Act v, scene 1.
No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.
ford madox ford— Dedicatory letter to Stella Ford (1927-01-09) in The Good Soldier, second edition.
The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.
william hazlitt— "On the Qualifications Necessary for Success"
A winning wave, deserving note,In the tempestuous petticoat,A careless shoestring, in whose tieI see a wild civility,Do more bewitch me than when artIs too precise in every part.
Robert Herrick— "Delight in Disorder".
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.
andrew johnson— Veto message to the House of Representatives (22 February 1869)
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), (Iago) Act II, scene 3, line 268.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,—and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
George Chapman— George Chapman, All Fools, Act V, scene 1.
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
orson scott card— Chapter 3 (Alvin Journeyman (1995))
Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.
Robertson Davies— "Haunted by Halloween", in the New York Times (31 October 1990)
Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children and often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
hermann hesse— p. 217 (Gertrude (1910))
To hoard surpluses of grain and other food products at a time when the people in Petrograd, in Moscow, and in dozens of non-agricultural uyezds are not only suffering from a shortage of bread, but are cruelly starving, is an enormous crime deserving the most ruthless punishment.
— Collected Works, Vol. 42, pp. 94–95[ ].
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Chapter 30 (Kavanagh: A Tale (1849))
Thy road, my Biggleswade, deserving draws From the pleas'd traveller his just applause; Nor less the lucid stream that laves thy side Deck'd in the flowing pomp of ready pride; Wether for gain, or in the finny line For on thy eels, good gods, how we did dine!
— Thomas Maude, 18th Century [ ]
Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.
george borrow— George Borrow, Lavengro, 1851.
Often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
hermann hesse— Gertrud (1910)
I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willlingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stired it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
— Response to George Plimpton, question at the end of an interview: "What would you like people to think about you when you've gone?" - YouTube video
Blank verse really deserving the name I believe [...] to be impossible except to one or two eminent writers in a generation.
— John Conington, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), "Preface".
I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
william hazlitt— William Hazlitt, Table-Talk (1822)
You can explore the universe, looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere. [ ]
— The Buddha - Sutta Nipata
A winning wave, (deserving note). In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility, Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder.
Vajpeya is annapeya , the yajna where cereals are distributed to deserving people. Some herb , cereals, and divines are also meant by Vajpeya.
— Vaidyanath Shastri, in Gems of Aryan wisdom. p.130
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
— Iago, scene iii
It is a satisfaction to find that his consideration for others, his respect for and deference to those deserving such treatment, his care of his own body and tongue, and even his reverence for his Maker , all were early inculcated in him by precepts which were the common practice in decent society the world over.
— Charles Moore introducing George Washington, in Famous Quotes from 100 Great People, p.2398
