Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.
Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.
Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?
After a certain age you get the face you deserve.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
I guess one gets the face one deserves.
Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.
Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.
Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
You get no more and no less than what you believe you deserve.
A cat who turns her nose up at bread does not deserve meat.
You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.
Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
Life is here for you to live to the fullest. . . . Take your courage in your hands and move out into Life. Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you. . . Be sure that you're willing to receive. Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms. Life loves you and only wants to give you the best.
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.
You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.