Deserved Quotes
298 quotes by 252 authors
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If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but…
— Martine Leavitt
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That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then…
— Barack Obama
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How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who…
— Lauren Weisberger
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The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors…
— Sarah Dessen
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Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other…
— Claudia Gray
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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in…
— Ted Dekker
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J.D. cleared his throat and pushed the button on the intercom. “Uh, Payton, hi. It’s J.D.†Dead silence. Then another crackle. “Sorry. Not interested.†Cute.…
— Julie James
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I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest,…
— Elizabeth Scott
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no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough…
— Ted Dekker
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She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving…
— Ann Brashares
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Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so…
— Lorrie Moore
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in…
— Stephenie Meyer
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He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped…
— Janet Evanovich
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I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who…
— Charlotte Bronte
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As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to…
— Jodi Picoult
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Staring Girl I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care She'd stare…
— Tim Burton
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