It's not hard to sacrifice something for some one. But it's very hard to find someone who deserve your sacrifice. — Ritu Ghatourey 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
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men. — Meera 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
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity,… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous.… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great… — John Quincy Adams 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 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
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“You give me thirty-two inches of folded steel and I'll take on anyone you want." -- Merit” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women. — Huda Sha'arawi Copy Share Image
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail… — Confucius 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
I don't give any merit to criticism. 'Country Girls (Shake it for Me),' I can see where people view that as sexist,… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
When you demand respect you will be shown respect. But that's usually all it is, a show. When you earn respect you… — TJay Taylor Copy Share Image
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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