Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved.
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two books. But that meant nothing in the long run. Right now, to be honest, Wilkie Collins is what he deserved to be back then: a footnote, an almost lost memory. And he knew he would become that.
[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
We haven't been leading anybody. We've been acquiescing to a bunch of linguini-spined leftists all over the world, at the United Nations, in NATO, wherever it is. The people who don't even pay for their own defense. The people that don't even believe in guns and bullets to protect yourself are the people we have been acquiescing to. And they think this is called leadership. Leadership is sponsoring America's decline. Leadership is administering America's decline. Leadership is admitting that America's superpower status was never deserved or warranted.
I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.
Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
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.
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.
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.