Top 85 Does Not Deserve Quotes
#1. The worry question: "What can I do about it right now?" If I can't do anything about it right now, it is not a priority and does not deserve my attention.
Karlyle Tomms
#2. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry A. Kissinger
#3. I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.
Richard M. Stallman
#4. Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
Calvin Coolidge
#5. In life I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, vous comprenez? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well. The sinner may deny it ... but in his heart he knows. He does not deserve to be happy.
Nikki Sex
#6. Borges, who said, Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.
Paul Theroux
#7. The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear, feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which occurs in life, and being a coward.
Paulo Coelho
#8. Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
Theodore Hesburgh
#9. A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
Idries Shah
#10. If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.
Khaled Saad
#11. History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
Will Durant
#12. The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.
Lawrence Fagg
#13. Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
#15. And a man who is stupid enough to let you slip through his fingers does not deserve you anyway.
Helen Brooks
#16. Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
Mark Twain
#17. To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.
Emil Cioran
#18. If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? ... Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.
Ambrose
#20. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.
Fran Lebowitz
#21. But why don't you take him with you into the light?
He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace
Mikhail Bulgakov
#22. The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.
Dejan Stojanovic
#23. He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living.
Luis Marques
#24. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#25. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#26. We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
Deb Caletti
#27. There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love is the highest thing. There can be no higher reason to justify it.
Peter Kreeft
#28. Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian ... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.
Mark Noll
#29. Never love a person who does not deserve that. You will respect people more, and you will hate people less.
M. T. Panchal
#30. The fairest and most radically human, coming here to declare that, ultimately, God does not deserve to see.
Jose Saramago
#31. Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#32. He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
Neal Shusterman
#33. Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.
Perry Brass
#34. Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.
Paulo Coelho
#36. How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.
W. H. Auden
#37. To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#38. The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
Jason Chaffetz
#39. The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
Benjamin Franklin
#40. If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to keep it.
James D. Sass
#41. That is our fate... One day we lose the person we love. Anyone who is unable to sustain that loss fails as a human being and does not deserve our sympathy.
Sandor Marai
#42. We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
Peter Pace
#44. There are three stupids:
A woman who thinks she does not deserve more, a man who believes he is superior, and a God who considers himself always right.
M.F. Moonzajer
#45. The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
George R R Martin
#46. He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#49. Anybody who does not value what you have does not deserve your relationship.
Matthew Ashimolowo
#50. It is better to love someone who does not deserve your love than love no one.
Debasish Mridha
#51. In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.
Kaoru Ishikawa
#52. The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.
Jacques Maritain
#53. Some people die because the world does not deserve them. Liz Emerson on the other hand, did not deserve the world.
Amy Zhang
#55. Make no mistake- you can change things. Question everything, take nothing for granted; argue with all received ideas, don't respect what does not deserve respect; speak your mind, don't censor yourself; use your imagination and express what it tells you to express. These are the weapons of the mind.
Salman Rushdie
#56. The children of any nation are its future. A country, a
movement, a person that does not value its youth and
children does not deserve its future.
Oliver Tambo
#58. Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life does not deserve it. Never destroy another life through rage, or through malice.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#59. He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
Samuel Johnson
#60. no State can command obedience if it does not deserve respect;
Anonymous
#61. The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.
Richard Stallman
#62. No can mean: not right now, not through this person, not this way, not through here. It does not mean: never, no other way, you don't deserve it, you're unworthy, it's not gonna happen.
Emily Maroutian
#63. To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Thomas Merton
#64. God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.
Robert Irvine
#65. Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?
Darrel Ray
#66. A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.
Johanna Siguroardottir
#67. Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?
Tasha Alexander
#68. I just hate that Lucas ... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.
Matt Stone
#69. Hopefully in 2011 the fans will get to see some fights that they want to see. Manny Pacquiao Vs. Floyd Mayweather needs to happen, and so does David Haye Vs. Wladimir Klitschko. The fans deserve to see fights that they want to see and not just the fights that the promoters want to see.
Emanuel Steward
#70. Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.
Vivian Amis
#71. You deserve a man who will take you and keep you, not a man who will have you and leave you. I can't be the man who does that to you.
Elizabeth Finn
#72. He doesn't deserve to die," she said. Tears pricked at her eyes. "Does anyone? Whether he deserves it or not is neither here nor there; it's simply his fate. You can no more change that than you can change the course of the stars.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#73. We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.
Adele Devine
#74. However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.
Catherynne M Valente
#75. I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
Brennan Manning
#76. As you think about the future ... give thanks and trust God ... Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us - which we do not deserve.
Billy Graham
#77. I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status.
Jerry Falwell
#78. The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#79. Pointing out that overspending on public-employee benefits leads to fiscal instability does not mean that public employees are bad people or that they deserve to fall on hard times; it's just observing a simple truth.
Devin Nunes
#80. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle.
#81. Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
Francis Scott Key
#82. Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.
Jack Parsons
#84. Bearing our cross does not mean wearing gunny sacks and long faces. Some people ... wear the look of a martyr every time they hear criticism. Sometimes we deserve the criticism we receive; however, we are blessed only when men speak evil against us falsely for Christ's sake.
Billy Graham
#85. Remember that we are all flawed, but that does not mean we don't deserve love.
J.J. McAvoy
