I Deserved Quotes
40 quotes by 39 authors
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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
— Margaret Thatcher
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I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr.…
— Dizzy Dean
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To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to…
— Grete Waitz
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it…
— Ian St John
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I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.
— Lena Dunham
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For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
— Randall Munroe
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I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,
— Dick Armey
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I…
— Lance Reddick
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The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
— Bob Kerrey
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me…
— Steve Yzerman
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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
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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
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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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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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I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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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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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
Who Wrote These I Deserved Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 40 I Deserved Quotes, led by these top contributors: