It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The idea that God’s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to… — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
This industry is all about work, and just because Sundance exposed me to the world, it is my job to stay deserving… — Gina Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
The goal isn't to be restrictive or tight about what passes through the altar (your mouth) and into the temple (your body).… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving… — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of… — Paul Morphy Copy Share Image
Worship the potato? The idea seemed silly to me. But then I thought, what else is more deserving of worship? It's simple,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
