Meriting Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.

Theodore Roosevelt

#3. I had requested all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out to me, I may state that no objections worthy of remark have been alleged against what I then said on these questions except two, to which I will here briefly reply.

Thomas Hobbes

#4. There is not a point that needs to be dwelt upon more earnestly, repeated more frequently, or established more firmly in the minds of all than the impossibility of fallen man meriting anything by his own best good works. Salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

Ellen G. White

#5. Fuck. Fuck! He made sense. It was Asshole Invasive Sense (yes, meriting capital letters), but it was still sense.

Kristen Ashley

#6. Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

Isaac Barrow

#8. Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

James Madison

#9. Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#10. Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.

Martin Luther

#12. Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

#14. Oh my God!" a woman whispered loudly. "They're gonna do it on the front lawn!

R.L. Matthewson

#15. There are many, many pricey streets in the Hamptons. There's South Hampton, Bridge Hampton and East Hampton, the three major towns. East Hampton has the largest selection of celebrities.

Steven Gaines

#16. I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better."
I nodded. "Hearts are like that.

Charles Martin

#17. That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Mary Parker Follett

#18. It's my job to worry about you. I'm in love with you, Stacy. I have been ever since I can remember. It's always been you.

Barbra Annino

#19. It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

Emil Artin

#20. I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.

Joshua Oppenheimer