If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.
People are knocking on my door, saying they deserve a chance and when you do, do your talking out there. Actions speak louder than words.
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.
America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.
I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
Loggers and mills in Maine and across the country deserve fair trade policies and more support from our federal government.
All South Sudanese deserve consistent and unimpeded humanitarian assistance, regardless of if they live in areas held by rebel or government forces.
He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.
I think gay people deserve all the same rights as everybody else, it's just that marriage is specifically for a man and a woman.
Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.
Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.
If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.
Parents of all income levels deserve options for child care while they work so they can be free of the worry that their children are cared for and safe.
He doesn't deserve it. he can have any girl in the world's love and he took yours. someone who deserves so much more than a summer fling
There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.
All women deserve a dignified and respectful workplace in which talent, hard work and loyalty are recognized, revered, and rewarded.
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.
There are billions of people in the world who deserve the better quality of life that products such as soap, shampoo, and clean drinking water can provide.
I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.
I don't consider any film of mine bad. I give all my films the importance they deserve. I look at all my roles with the same kind of seriousness.
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.
I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
The kind of simple conventional background that I come from doesn't allow me to be with a woman without giving her and the relationship the sanctity that they deserve.
We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
I think it's hard to leave a relationship that you shouldn't be in. It's a self thing and not really realizing your worth and how much you deserve in love.
Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.
If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.
The people of Michigan deserve leadership in Lansing that will work to continue providing them with services they depend on every day.
The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.
We accept the love we think we deserve. please help me to recognize the truth about myself,no matter how beautiful it is.
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.
I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
I became blinded by what I thought I needed to do. I was wrong. I was stupid. But not for one minute did I ever stop loving you. And that's why I deserve to be forgiven.
Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.
Sometimes the opponents deserve a red card, but instead, they carry on playing with 11 men. So you also have to be more lucky in the future.
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Every time I think that it’s not worth it – that the people in it deserve the misery of their lives – I come across someone who makes me rethink that.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
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