Top 100 Deserved It Quotes
#1. I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?
Anne Perry
#2. I might not survive Clare. She was truly my ultimate temptation. I never wanted anything more and yet fought so hard against it. But I knew I needed this. I knew she needed this. I had to start this off right. She deserved it, she deserved everything.
J.L. Berg
#3. I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,
Beryl Bainbridge
#4. I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
Joe Jamail
#5. I won't tolerate her hurting you, my son. I'll kill the bitch first."
"Weren't you the one who tried to cut father's throat before he Claimed you?"
"He deserved it,
G.A. Aiken
#6. As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough
Laini Taylor
#7. Look at all the people who received miracles from Jesus during His ministry on earth. Not a single one of them deserved it.
Paul Silway
#8. I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.
Corbin Bleu
#9. That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#10. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
Joss Whedon
#13. It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
Angelo Dundee
#14. The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.
John Owen
#15. He needed a story to go with her wildness, her coldness, her hollowness. The real story was that she'd had everything and hadn't deserved it, when she'd still wanted something else to sate a broken twisting emptiness that couldn't be filled.
Cole McCade
#16. But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school - to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.
Frank E. Peretti
#17. This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#18. Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.
Mike Wallace
#19. She tucked her lips in and eyed the pancakes Tristan pulled from the pan. "Making a midnight snack?"
She tried to sound light and casual. Normal. Friendly.
Not because Tristan deserved it, but because she wanted pancakes. And Tristan, apparently, was keeper of the pancakes.
Chelsea Fine
#20. In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can thus magnanimously persist in error.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#21. Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#22. The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.
Wilbur Smith
#23. He gazed at Reef in almost unconcealed envy, failing completely to recognize the darker thing, the desire, the desperate need to create a radius of annihilation that, if it could not include the ones who deserved it, might as well include himself. Webb
Thomas Pynchon
#24. We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?
Joel Schumacher
#25. The first time I met Hunter Zaccadelli, I punched him in the face. Granted, he completely and totally deserved it. He also asked for it, in so many ways.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#26. He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville's snores, he thought that Neville deserved it more than he did.
J.K. Rowling
#27. And she deserved it, didn't she? She had told herself, desperately trying to rationalize the hurt she was about to cause. She was allowed another chance? Why should she have to give up on romantic love at the age of thirty-five?
Jojo Moyes
#28. All around him the chanting swelled, Harm no one, harm no one. What the hell did that mean? He was going to have to shoot the poor son of a bitch, but maybe that was a far better way to go than what the house of horrors had planned. This was a hell of a way for men to die, even if they deserved it.
Christine Feehan
#29. I was not that man: I didn't hate and fear all women. I was a one-woman misogynist. If I despised only Amy, focused all my fury and rage and venom on the one woman who deserved it, that didn't make me my father. That made me sane.
Gillian Flynn
#30. Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it.
Jodi Meadows
#31. I said it was a brutal thing.
No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it,
Mark Twain
#32. On my first day of kindergarten, I bit a kid. Hard. In my defense, he deserved it.
Kat Kruger
#33. Because you deserved it! Because you should know what it feels like! How bad it hurts, you self-centered asshole!
Sylvia Day
#34. When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
Gene Wolfe
#35. Adam didn't need his father to go to jail. He had merely needed someone outside the situation to look at it and confirm that yes, a crime had been committed. Adam had not invented it, spurred it, deserved it. It said so on the court paperwork. Robert Parrish, guilty. Adam Parrish, free.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.
Pliny The Younger
#37. One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.
Miranda Lambert
#38. Obviously, they were not to torture anyone for their own pleasure unless the fucker just totally deserved it.
Ari Bach
#39. She deserved it, the snake. After keeping my little golden bird locked up in her cage for so long.
Marissa Meyer
#40. Not everybody gets a happy ending, however deserved it may be. Life had been doing its damnedest to teach me that, starting with my first saltwater breath, the day my mother died at sea.
But that didn't mean we were giving up.
Sarah Ockler
#41. E need more love than we deserve ... has God not indeed shown us his greatest love precisely when we deserved it least from the tree of Eden to the tree of Calvary and beyond?
Joseph Langford
#42. The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.
Shirley Corder
#44. Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
Plautus
#45. To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus
#46. My dad had told me that if you stayed out after nine and you were a girl it meant that you wanted to have sex with whoever was passing by. He told me that if I got raped after nine o'clock the courts would probably say I deserved it.
Heather O'Neill
#47. Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it.
Susan Sontag
#48. Such grace is never held in abeyance, never earned or deserved. It is not given to some and not to others. Grace is ever present; it is only our openness to it that comes and goes. In one sense, The Way of Liberation is a means of opening up to grace.
Adyashanti
#49. How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled.
"Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.
Maya Banks
#50. To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo
#51. I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
Randy Pausch
#52. That's the Devil talking in you , Joe. To his way of thinking that's likely what was happening.
"No,"I let go my grip. No need to crush my own hard head when it was someone else's that deserved it.
"It's Joe talking.
James Buchanan
#53. It's outrageous, one woman said, but without belief. What was it about this that made us feel we deserved it? When
Margaret Atwood
#54. Don't worry, she deserved it anyway. She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic.
Xiaolu Guo
#55. Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus
#56. His was the holiest face I ever saw. My very name turned holy on his tongue. If he had bade me rise and follow to the end of time, I would have gone. If he had bade me die for him, I would have died. When I deserved it least, God gave me most. I think it was the savior's face I saw.
Frederick Buechner
#57. He looked at his watch and knew he had to get going. He wished he could spend forever staring at her, but he was not meant to have that much happiness; he never thought he deserved it. Not after spending centuries as he did.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#58. When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.
Wally Lamb
#59. Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#60. Correct me if I'm wrong. But it was you stuck the head on the policehorse?
It deserved it didn't it. Standin' there whinnying at me in that bloody Kelvinside accent.
Ian Pattison
#61. I've never violated any woman." "Have you killed?" He paused at that, before reaching into the wardrobe to move aside her spare day gown. "Once or twice. The men deserved it, I assure you.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#62. They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.
Mindy Kaling
#63. Some people you couldn't help but love. You loved them without reservation or fear. You loved them hard and fierce, because they deserved it. They deserved to be loved just as much as you deserved for them to return it.
S.L. Jennings
#64. Calamity has come on you, my brethren, and, my brethren, you deserved it,
Albert Camus
#65. If good only came to those who deserved it, the world would be a bleak place. In
Kim Van Alkemade
#66. Death by hanging ... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
Hans Frank
#67. I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.
Samuel Adams
#68. It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out our thoughts and not have them denigrated, laughed at, or trampled upon, even when they deserved it. A place like that is precious.
Alexei Panshin
#69. 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 her blindly when she deserved it so little.
Ann Brashares
#70. How long have you been standing there?"
"Just long enough to see you give Daemon the middle finger."
"He deserved it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#71. My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
Naguib Mahfouz
#73. I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.
Norman Jewison
#74. Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian
#75. I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.
Charlotte Rampling
#76. When you kissed me ... I felt special.
I never really felt like I deserved it.
That isn't your fault. That was me.
When I looked down the aisle on our wedding day and you weren't there, my first thought, as awful as this sounds, wasn't, "Where is he?" it was, "Oh, it figures.
Virginia Nelson
#77. That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
#78. A backwards step of self-doubt, a lying promise that you knew would hurt you later, a knowledge that you were going to get hurt and you probably deserved it.
Maggie Stiefvater
#79. If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.
Andy Rooney
#80. Because spite could be a slow poison to the heart. If there was a lesson to be learned from Hattie, it was that forgiveness was a blessing. It would be a hard, stubborn thing to harbor ill feelings forever, even toward those who deserved it...
Jessica Lawson
#81. How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.
Walter Kirn
#82. In order for grace to truly be grace, it has to extend to absolutely everyone, no matter what, no questions, no exceptions. Otherwise we think that somehow, by living a moral life ... we've deserved it
Jay Bakker
#83. Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
William Gilmore Simms
#84. If we all got what we deserved we'd all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won't undo it now.
Rosamund Hodge
#85. It was humanly impossible to extend to seven billion people the full sympathy that each of them deserved.
Neal Stephenson
#86. Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William Hazlitt
#87. Her gaze settling on Bush International Airport. What is it with politicians anyway, always rushing to put their name on everything? She couldn't think of a single politician who deserved his name on a sewage treatment facility, much less an airport where everyone had to look at it all the time.
D.B. Reynolds
#88. I'm sorry, Imi." His apology whispered in my ears as I left the room. But it was the words that followed that burrowed deep.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be who you deserved."
I stopped just before opening the door.
"I'm sorry I believed that you already were," I responded softly.
A Meredith Walters
#89. He'd have that answer and he'd give it to Mercy. And she'd leave him. She'd leave him like all good things did. Like he fucking deserved because that's the product, the sum, the quotient, the difference in his life. Good always equaled gone.
Lucian Bane
#90. It seemed bleakly ironic to me that someone who craved, deserved and had worked so hard to earn a tragic, early death appeared to be doomed to live forever.
Mishka Shubaly
#91. 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 way, he'd been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.
Claudia Gray
#92. I don't want you to think about anyone in your past. No now, not ever again. You deserved a hell of a lot more than any of those bastards gave you."
"If it helps," she said with a faint smile, "I killed most of them.
Elle Kennedy
#93. None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.
Barack Obama
#94. Somewhere around chapter seven she had started wondering if Lucinda, the annoyingly incompetent heroine of The Black Duke, truly deserved to live. The chit was forever whining about her life, while refusing to do anything about it.
Karen Hawkins
#95. Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.
Orson Scott Card
#96. Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinley
#97. Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom
and wherever deserved.
Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue,
Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless
And it isn't for you.
Louise Bogan
#98. When the I AM THAT I AM made nothing
And rested, which rest it certainly deserved,
Night now accompanied day, and man
Had his friend in the absence of the woman.
Antonio Machado
#99. 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 was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
Ian St. John
#100. We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
Carlton Cuse
