It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer. . . Mr. Samuel Adams arose and said he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country. He. . . had heard that Mr. Duche. . . deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche. . . might be desired to read prayers to the Congress. . . . After (he read several prayers), Mr. Duche, unexpected to everybody, struck out into an extemporary prayer, which filled the bosom of every man present.
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.
I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated that logically they have come to a conclusion that makes me feel satisfied.
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.
I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.
Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors. . . the now and forever king-of-the-hill.
Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.
Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.