Deserves Quotes

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.