As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Know your worth. Know the difference between what you're getting and what you deserve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
“He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest;… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
“He's twenty-nine. And what did you think he was going to look like?" She shrugged. "You know-old. Grizzled. Long white beard. Scruffy… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
