Deserves Quotes
935 Deserves quotes by 720 unique authors
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
— Zadie Smith
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Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes…
— Don DeLillo
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
— Maya Angelou
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good…
— Ezra Pound
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A society gets the criminals it deserves.
— Val McDermid
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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice.…
— Eduardo Galeano
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A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
— John Wayne
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When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit.…
— Fred Rogers
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I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and…
— Charles Dickens
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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
— Allan Bloom
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Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once
— Morris Gleitzman
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David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.
— Dave Pelzer
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Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being disowned by its…
— Naomi Klein
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A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must…
— Mortimer Adler
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When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.
— Nicholas Sparks
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
— Pliny the Elder
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The core problem isn’t the fact that we’re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and…
— Francis Chan
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Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
— Aesop
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He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You know, it’s amazing to me the wounds we carry for eternity. But what has fascinated me most these last few years is how the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
— David Allen
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When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a…
— Roald Dahl
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Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
— Joan D. Chittister
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Mirror sighed. "I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for…
— Michael Buckley
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