Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth… — James Packer Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people,… — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them:… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
If you keep doubting every issue you come across in life, you will never consider any issue based on its merits. — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men. — Meera Copy Share Image
I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
