Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise -… — Sue Kelly Copy Share Image
These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice — David Landes Copy Share Image
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents. — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
