Top 100 Quotes About Deserved
#1. I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much worse books than I had conceived. If I have erred in any thing, in the former part of the Age of Reason, it has been by speaking better of some parts than they deserved.
Thomas Paine
#2. They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.
Mindy Kaling
#3. Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams.
V.S. Carnes
#4. Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn't tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair.
Richard Peck
#5. Grace is the very opposite of merit ... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.
Henry Allen Ironside
#6. The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man.
Plato
#7. 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
#8. I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.
Mike Farrell
#9. 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
#10. There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, yet they walked.
Colson Whitehead
#11. Love is not a feeling; it's giving someone what he or she needs most when it is least deserved. That's how God loved me, and I choose to stick with the program.
Chip Ingram
#12. But perhaps Kira Dallaire wasn't exactly what she seemed to be. I sat down at my desk and turned on my computer to google her. One good turn deserved another.
Mia Sheridan
#13. Sadan was so...beautiful. There seemed no other word for him, even if he had proved to be an ass and deserved to die in lakes of his own blood.
J.C. Owens
#14. She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.
Rick Riordan
#15. Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.
Pierre Corneille
#16. Dear God, if I made it through this alive and conscious, my name deserved to be added to some X-rated category in the Guinness Book of World Records or something.
-Emma
Rachael Wade
#17. God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.
Sophie Swetchine
#18. He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.
Helen Simonson
#19. How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)
Lauren Weisberger
#20. To be honest, I don't think you deserved her, but I don't think any of us deserved her really. She was always going to be the smartest, kindest, funniest, loyalest person we would ever meet, and the fact of her not being here well it just isn't right
David Nicholls
#21. Law enforcement hardened you. It made you cynical about people. Even people you loved. The people who deserved your unconditional trust.
Josh Lanyon
#22. So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
Richard Baxter
#23. Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#24. Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved.
Louis-Joseph Papineau
#25. The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.
Richard A. Falk
#26. Cabal dimly recalled that the musical genius who'd decided to put on Necronomicon: The Musical had got everything he deserved: money, fame, and torn to pieces by an invisible monster.
Jonathan L. Howard
#27. Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#28. That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
Phaedrus
#29. She made a blunder that not even a twelve-year-old would commit, which only proved that her brain was being eaten up by worms and that she deserved to be flogged.
Stieg Larsson
#30. Success is not something that must be deserved or earned. It is more an inherent right - an inherent responsibility. The only qualification for success is that you be you, that you utilize whatever combination of talent you possess to the fullest extent possible.
Og Mandino
#31. Darlin', if we only married who we deserved, then the world would be filled with single women, an older woman said.
Susan Mallery
#32. But damn, how I wanted, just for once in my godforsaken life, to be the hero, the knight in shining armor, the guy she deserved to have.
Rachel Van Dyken
#33. Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.
Rick Riordan
#34. With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Ray Bradbury
#35. Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
Maria Conchita Alonso
#36. I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
Chelsea Handler
#37. When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.
Wally Lamb
#38. Life was too short to take shit. Let people walk all over you and you got what you deserved.
Kylie Scott
#39. No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
C.J. Mahaney
#40. When she smiled, the world smiled with her, and more than once, I found myself wishing I was the man she deserved to be with, the one she had come to Italy to find.
R.S. Grey
#41. You could have been the King that our side deserved.
Anonymous
#42. Taking the things that other people thought they deserved to keep was dangerous work.
James S.A. Corey
#43. Thoughts are supreme. It is driving the car we call life. So to reach the deserved destination think right.
Debasish Mridha
#44. But my parents had taught me that everybody deserved respect, no matter if they were pansies or not, and to tell the truth, I was nothing to write home about in the physical looks department.
Robert McCammon
#45. She cried for the guilt of not being able to love Mano the way he deserved. She cried for the lies she had told him and herself for so many years. And she cried because she already missed him.
Elizabeth Hunter
#46. I might have been asked to moderate my attitude a time or two. But really, life was too short to take shit. Let people walk all over you and you got what you deserved. I'd learned that the hard way.
Kylie Scott
#47. 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
#48. I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
Taylor Hicks
#49. They came out of the vault intoxicated, not by the mere thought of food, but by the consciousness that they too were of use in the world and did not live in vain, and had deserved the praise and thanks which Tonya would shower on them at home.
Boris Pasternak
#50. The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.
George Downame
#51. Mr. Hardie had little patience with that sort of conversation."Ye're born, ye suffer, and ye die. What made ye think ye deserved different?" he wondered aloud when the deacon's gentle answers failed to quiet them.
Charlotte Rogan
#52. Rewards are not an entitlement, they have to be deserved, they have to be earned.
Murad S. Shah
#53. 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
#54. Everyone deserved a person who could look into their eyes and say, You're enough. You're perfect, scars and all.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#55. It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved.
Jennifer Lawrence
#56. Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus
#57. Don't worry, she deserved it anyway. She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic.
Xiaolu Guo
#58. He was a scoundrel, and he deserved whatever happened to him. But for just one shining, magical night Lily would pretend he was a prince.
Linda Lael Miller
#59. I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.
Novak Djokovic
#60. Objective tests of managerial ability are few and far from scientific. In most cases the investor must rely upon a reputation which may or may not be deserved.
Benjamin Graham
#61. Roderick Morgenstern, who Magnus thought truly deserved to have a name that sounded like a goat chewing gravel, stood up happily to continue his speech.
Cassandra Clare
#62. It's outrageous, one woman said, but without belief. What was it about this that made us feel we deserved it? When
Margaret Atwood
#63. The dog has been esteemed and loved by all the people on earth and he has deserved this affection for he renders services that have made him man's best friend.
Alfred Barbou
#64. And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was
Janice Hardy
#65. She taught me that I deserved her. And in return, I took her away from the man who didn't.
Elizabeth Finn
#66. But a man like that deserved to never be thought of again. Why couldn't he have just stayed buried? No good had come of this.
Sarah Addison Allen
#67. 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
#68. We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#69. The hero isn't the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame - deserved or not - and apologize to save a relationship.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.
H. Beam Piper
#72. The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.
Frank Rich
#73. Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.
Tamora Pierce
#74. 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
#75. He knew he was in there. He knew why. He knew that was his place to be. Because he knew he deserved to be there.
Kristen Ashley
#76. To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.
Grete Waitz
#77. A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.
Mitt Romney
#78. Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.
Stephen Curry
#79. Cabal slapped him hard. Perhaps harder than necessary, but he felt he deserved a little recreation.
Jonathan L. Howard
#80. Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.
Simon Cowell
#81. You going to be a scientist when you grow up? That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
Philip Pullman
#82. He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#83. 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
#84. A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. To Pimp a Butterfly is an extension of those albums.
Kendrick Lamar
#85. He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
Thomas Brooks
#86. No one deserves what I've been put through. I might have deserved your anger but I didn't deserve the entire school's anger. I did nothing to them. So forgive me if I don't see where I brought a week's worth of relentless bullying on myself.
Abbi Glines
#87. If war had taught him anything, it was that it took the people who deserved long and happy lives and gave them short, brutal ones instead.
Melissa Grey
#88. A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.
Mitch Gaylord
#89. Wondering just how Mr Church thought he had deserved anything short of impalement, Stephen walked into the cabin.
Patrick O'Brian
#90. Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.
M.R. Weston
#91. At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.
Mariam Naficy
#92. Bloody hell, were you this annoying with my father?" "I fear I was more so, my lord. I was younger then and could go on and on and on - " "Good. The old bastard deserved a difficult time." "So many people believe.
Karen Hawkins
#93. All his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.
Kingsley Amis
#94. As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.
Jodi Picoult
#95. Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.
Charles Dickens
#96. Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
Barry White
#97. It was useless to whine and moan about what you could've had- what you deserved, what was fair. I was just happy to have this moment.
Rick Riordan
#98. As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
Lance Reddick
#99. The most bitter thing for a child is to see in another just the kind of son his mother deserved,
Elizabeth Taylor
#100. They both possessed a victimhood that had been conferred because they'd both been guilty of being female in a world where some men believed they deserved never to feel powerless.
Val McDermid
