Deserved Quotes
298 Deserved quotes by 252 unique authors
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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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You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
— Philip Pullman
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Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.
— Nicholas Sparks
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You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks…
— Khalil Gibran
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It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women…
— Candace Bushnell
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For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)
— Vince Flynn
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When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
— Gene Wolfe
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their…
— Philippa Gregory
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How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.
— Maya Banks
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The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have…
— Frederick Buechner
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He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.
— John Irving
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She went back to Shane and settles in on his lap again, arm around his neck. His circled her waist. "I thought you had to…
— Rachel Caine
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Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I…
— Richard Siken
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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted…
— Abraham Maslow
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I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.
— Stephen King
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Easter is never deserved.
— Jan Karon
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe…
— James Robertson
Who Wrote These Deserved Quotes
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