“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.” IfsThinkingMenGivingYearsTwoUseShowsSeemsUsedNamesRaceKnownPiecesParticularDeserveTreatsOriginalsJewCriminalsTricksInsultMaskContemptAssociatesMeannessCrawlingVagabondsSubterfuge Book:The Jews Source: The Jews
“If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.” IfsWellsHandsWould BeUsedFightingChurchDeserveHolinessAcceptableFatherland Book:Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement Source: Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement
“I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingPersonsHas BeensStillsKidsUsedStuffEffortCreaturesDeserveAccountsQuittingVain Author:Chris Ware
“On `Earth Song' I was the military guy that would come out of a tank that was used during the show. It was unbelievable; somehow I'd become a Michael Jackson fan that got to dance with Michael Jackson! I spent a lot of time wondering, "what the hell did I do right to deserve this?"” ShowsEarthUsedGuySongWonderHellFansMilitaryDeserveUnbelievableTanks Author:Cris Judd
“Studies have shown that the terms girl and lady have pejorative connotations: They conjure images of someone weaker and lazier; someone more nervous, afraid, dependent, immature, and inconsiderate; someone less sexy, intelligent, and certainly less charismatic than 'woman.' Indeed, the term woman is overwhelmingly interpreted as more favorable and is most often used to describe adult females who deserve respect.” UsedGirlTermStudyAdultsDeserveFemaleIntelligentSexyNervousDependentImmatureCharismaticConnotationInconsiderate Author:Pat Heim
“I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.” KindUsedNextSleepMorningBedDeserveLegsTranceKatieCockroachesHypnotic Author:Byron Katie
“Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!” WayGivingDreamRealityHappensUsedGrowsChanceFailingDeserveDeterminationIncreaseRaisesBarsDenialYour DreamsDelayAnother ChanceRaising The BarWay To Success Author:Les Brown
“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.” IfsThinkingStillsAbleUsedGirlBitsKindnessDivineDeserveMercyObviousDefinedFlawsGiver Author:Susan Meissner
“Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it.” ThinkingWantedUsedQualityProductsOffersDeserveCustomersBackgroundsModelingHigh Quality Author:Kam Williams
“One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking it apart - but only in the service of a character or story that deserves it. Another path I often employ is to put form into "play" - to set it free from its ordinary constraints and let it be free-floating and broken-apart and rearranged.” PlayCharacterStoriesFormUsedPathBrokenOrdinaryDeserveTraditionFloatingConstraintsTropes Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.” WayFeelsDoneUsedAsksHurtDeserveAdversityPreparing Author:Eden Phillpotts
“Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind.” KnowsGivingSaidSometimesUsedUnderstandingMorningMankindCrimeProveDeserveGive MePunishmentGrandmotherEvery MorningMy GrandmotherForesightFormidable Author:Terry Pratchett
“Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers” PeopleDoeUsedTimeLiteratureNamesSocialLosesMoralAirDangerWastePaperDeserveLettersCongressDareContemporaryCategoriesSovietFourthThreateningFacadeContemporary Society Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.” IfsThinkingKnowsLifeHappensUsedUniverseTerribleComfortDeserveFairsAwfulUnfairHostilityTerrible ThingsUnfairness Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.” GivingUsedPrayerCitiesWorshipDeservePraiseNoiseFulfillingQuietnessGod Is There Author:Charles R. Swindoll