Deserved Quotes

298 Deserved quotes by 252 unique authors

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. — C.S. Lewis
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not… — Ayn Rand
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen
As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and… — Robinson Jeffers
Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea.… — Pat Conroy
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was… — Ann Brashares
It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I… — Owen Wister
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul. — Joyce Carol Oates
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,'… — Ray Bradbury
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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