“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it.” IfsNeedsSometimesMightSinHavensExampleDeserveCommittedDesperateStolenHammers Author:David Sedaris
“I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.” IfsGivingMindHumansPersonsMadeRaceHavensGiving UpDeserveDecidedSticksBreadHuman RaceTreatmentSuspectsConventionsPuddlesGenevaGeneva Convention Book:Assassination Vacation Source: Assassination Vacation
“The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.” IfsFeelsKindMayCasesCrimeHavensInternetDeserveCommittedAccessPiracy Author:Morgan Freeman
“Kashmir is my last resort. I think, if I truly deserve it one day, I should go there and stay there for quite a while. Or if I really need it at any point, it should be my haven, my Shangri-la.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldLastsHavensOne DayDeserveResortsKashmirShangri Author:Robert Plant
“I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.” PeopleThinkingWorldEnoughSidesLeaderTroubleHeardHavensDeserveCrowdsFollowingCheerFollowersThinkerEngineersEconomistGreat LeaderSurgeonsGreat Thinkers Author:Babe Ruth
“Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.” YearsStillsTwoWaterMillionsHavensEvolutionDeserveCaughtFishesLazy Author:Simon Munnery
“It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve it, I haven't promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.” IfsThinkingReasonFactsPainStrongAcceptingMoralHavensCreaturesDeserveNo ReasonHelpfulSubmitRealism Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.” IfsFeelsSometimesFightingAttitudeHavensStupidConsciousDeserveAgony Author:George Michael
“I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you bribe them to say things that they wouldn't otherwise say.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingHavensDeserveBribe Author:Nick Broomfield
“If they can’t survive alone for four days once a year, they deserve to die. (Acheron) That’s harsh, for you. (Dante) Harsh? Tell you what, you take my phone and skim through the three thousand phone calls I get every day and night and see how harsh I am. I truly hate modern technology and phones in particular. I haven’t had a full four hours of sleep in over fifty years. ‘Ash, I broke a toenail, help me. Ash, my head hurts, what should I do?’ (Acheron)” IfsShouldYearsHelpingNightHateDiesThreeHoursHurtSleepTechnologyFourModernHavensParticularThousandDeservePhonesBrokeFiftyHelp MeAshesShould IHarshDay And NightPhone CallsModern TechnologyToenails Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon