I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.
This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong. I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways.
Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.
Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.
We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. . . . The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.
A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat. , Fors aequa merentes Respicit. ]
We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
