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)
Of course in nature the only ending is death, but death hardly ever happens when people are at their best. That is why we like tragedies. They show men energetically with their wits about them and deserving to do it.
— 1981Lanark, bk.1, interlude.
It is increasingly rare for many of us?to believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves.Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.
— 1994 In Catholic NewYork, quoted in the NewYork Times, 24 Nov.
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
thomas otway— 1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.
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.
I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he happens to be living. I know not whether this mental quality is deserving of censure or commendation, but it proves the incredible pliancy of his mind and the presence of that clear common sense which pardons evil wherever it sees that evil is inevitable or impossible of annihilation.
mikhail lermontov— A Hero of Our Time
The man, whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than himself.
— Walter Scott, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 404.
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))
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.
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".
You've told me the way, and now I'm trying to get there And this life sentence that I'm serving I admit, that I'm every bit deserving But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair.
— Reliant K, "Be My Escape", on Mmhmm (2004).
I charge you by the law, Whereof you are a well deserving pillar, Proceed to judgment.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 238
Well-targeted killing, however, is not evidently more decent than random killing, unless the targeted victims are thought to be more deserving of their fate.
— Ray, Ellen; William H. Schaap, Institute for Media Analysis (2003). Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism. Ocean Press. p. 42. ISBN 1876175842.
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
