Deserves Quotes

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

A woman has the age she deserves.

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.