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.
kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon— Turtle v. Hartwell (1795), 6 T. R. 429.
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))
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)
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))
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))
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 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'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.
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
