Quotes with deserve

  • We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
  • I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
  • We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
  • My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
  • The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
  • There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
  • Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
  • A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
  • The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
  • The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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  • Aristotle Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Harrigan Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
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  • Kyle Schmidt I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
    Kyle Schmidt
    Canadian actor (1984 - )
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  • Molière The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Joseph Addison 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Alan Turing A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Joseph Joubert A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Bob Ney All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
    Metropolitan life
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Mark Victor Hansen Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
    Mark Victor Hansen
    American motivational speaker and author (1948 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bo Bennett Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Dan Quayle I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Jack Benny I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.
    Jack Benny
    American comedian, vaudevillian and actor (1894 - 1974)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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