Deserve Quotes - Page 18

• People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Idols, People, Kind

  Karen Kingsbury (2014). “Fifteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

  Martin Rees

  Commitment, Moon, Challenges

  Martin Rees (2011). “From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons”, p.60, Profile Books

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• The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.

  Tertullian

  Father, Love You, Son

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• Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.

  Rob Brezsny

  Rights, Needs, Tests

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.23, Frog Books

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• Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food - where it comes from, how to cook it and how it affects their bodies. These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they've been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.

  Jamie Oliver

  Reading, Writing, School

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• There's nothing about Tony Romo that deserves to be associated with America's Team.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Team, America

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• Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Equal Pay, Dollars

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me.

  Louise Hay

  Deserve Love, Romance, Joy

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Oct 31, 2015

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• A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Coward, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

  W. H. Auden

  Parades, Ends, Novel

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• People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

  Julianne Moore

  Alzheimer's, People, Cures

  "The Oscars". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given 'taking offense' a social status it doesn't deserve: it's not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.

  Frankie Boyle

  Reality, People, Understanding

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• Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

  Sterling W Sill

  Attitude, Age, Faces

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• Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

  Victoria Jackson

  Fun, People, Mind

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• While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve. What it does take, however, is effort. What it does take is imagination. What it does take is a commitment to our children's futures.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Children, School

  "Twitter's #ThanksMichelleObama Hashtag Has Students Sharing Photos of Their Gross School Lunches" by Alyssa Toomey, www.eonline.com. November 21, 2014.

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• My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Men, Deserve You, Humanity

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• Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fashion, Believe, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

  Jay Samit

  Believe

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.

  Heath Ledger

  I Hate You, Lessons, Want

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• You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.

  Kid Rock

  People

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Jul 21, 2013

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• It's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights...

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Rights, People

  "David Bianculli's Top 10 TV Shows Of 2008". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 23, 2008.

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• If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Deserve You, Want

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• Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

  Barack Obama

  Equal Pay, Pay, Equal

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2014

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• Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Doe, Respect Life

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• Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

  Lois Lowry

  Kids, Thinking, Favorite Words

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