Top 44 Merited Quotes
#1. This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#2. I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
Dallas Willard
#3. We can never know ... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?
Charlotte Rampling
#4. She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.
E. Lockhart
#5. I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
Bharati Mukherjee
#6. If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
Salman Rushdie
#7. The United States will be forced to fight wars of policy during the balance of the century. This is inevitable, since the world is seething with disaffection and revolt, which, however justified and merited, plays into Communist hands, and swings the world balance ever their way.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#8. Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.
Herman Melville
#9. The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.
Ravi Zacharias
#10. There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#11. Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.
Martin Luther
#12. War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
Orson Scott Card
#14. In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
Elinor Wylie
#15. In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
#16. Why didn't the others help you?" Daisy asked angrily, scrubbing the sleeve of her gown over her dripping face.
"They were busy saving their own skins. Although," Matthew added ruefully, "I would have thought I merited a little more importance than the horses.
Lisa Kleypas
#17. No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#18. Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#19. Recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who'd never been punished so harshly. Had the crime he'd committed merited a death sentence? There were other Seelie who felt as he did, who wanted a return to
Karen Marie Moning
#20. The forgiveness of God is a gift to be received, not a reward to be merited.
John R.W. Stott
#21. And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#22. Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Ogden Nash
#23. Surely, then, this was a situation that merited the high-minded if somewhat sneering riposte of John Maynard Keynes: When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
Kathryn Schulz
#24. And human love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
Francis G. Thompson
#25. Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
#26. Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it's merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked
Bill Parcells
#27. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail Bakunin
#28. John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.
Paul Johnson
#29. To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years it places a man within the select circle, known and respected, as another have merited in fifty years. It is a gain of thirty years without trouble.
Blaise Pascal
#30. Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Sydney Pollack
#31. I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.
Mark Zuckerberg
#32. Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.
John Green
#33. One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.
John Hope
#34. The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people.
Herman Wouk
#35. The best part is just having a partner. There is no real worst part. I'm not going to say there's a worst part. I mean I'm a comedian - comedians like to work alone. So maybe I'm not the ideal guy to be married to, in that sense.
Chris Rock
#36. All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#37. On Easter day let us promise to resurrect, transcend, and transform our conscience for the happiness of mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#38. They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
Alex Ferguson
#39. Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#40. The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.
Jo Durie
#41. To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
W. H. Auden
#42. I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.
Julio Cortazar
#43. I didn't think you remembered my name."Lucas narrowed his eyes back as a tiny smile flitted across his face. He wrapped an arm around my shoulders and placed his mouth close to my ear. "Of course i did, love. I always remember the names i moan out in pleasure.
J.L. Paul
#44. No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.
Katherine Rundell
