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  • Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them. -- Arsene Wenger
  • Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. -- Erich Fromm
  • I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. -- Walt Whitman
  • I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. -- John Malkovich
  • Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. -- Will Self
  • As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them. -- Brooke Shields
  • To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. -- Victor Hugo
  • Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. -- Tacitus
  • Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. -- William Hazlitt
  • Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. -- Barry White
  • If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. -- Russell Lynes
  • The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with. -- Clare Boothe Luce
  • I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it. -- Corbin Bleu
  • Jesus is not only the Son of God, but He is God Himself. Having all power in His hands, He laid down His life for people who deserved God's justice, not His mercy. -- Monica Johnson
  • Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries. -- Wayne Dyer
  • What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love. -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here. -- Steve Yzerman
  • I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games. -- Dizzy Dean
  • The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved. -- Vince Cable
  • At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company. -- Mariam Naficy
  • Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. -- Jonny Greenwood
  • We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show. -- Carlton Cuse
  • Easter is never deserved. -- Jan Karon
  • Love is deserved, not desired. -- Vikrmn
  • I wasn't lucky. I deserved it. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Grace and mercy are never deserved. -- R. C. Sproul
  • Success is never deserved. Success is always earned. -- Robin Sharma
  • My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned. -- Alfred Doblin
  • Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment. -- Ann Landers
  • It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe. -- Tobey Maguire
  • I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president, -- Dick Armey
  • I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. -- Pierre Corneille
  • Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved. -- Bill Johnson
  • Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
  • As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat. -- David S.E. Zapanta
  • Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved -- Henry Mayhew
  • Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved. -- Erich Fromm
  • Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. -- Henry Mayhew
  • He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too. -- Mike Wallace
  • He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping. -- Thomas Brooks
  • When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. -- Gene Wolfe
  • The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart. -- Bob Kerrey
  • ...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. -- Dean Koontz
  • It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved. -- Jennifer Lawrence
  • Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke -- William Feather
  • I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved. -- Mark Twain
  • [Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose. -- Alan Greenspan
  • Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. -- William Feather
  • I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor. -- Ira Hayes
  • My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. -- Naguib Mahfouz
  • I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
  • The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was -- Janice Hardy
  • With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited. -- Ovid
  • Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. -- Pierre Corneille
  • I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win. -- Novak Djokovic
  • To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. -- Tacitus
  • Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was. -- Rick Riordan
  • There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends. -- Walt Whitman
  • It's a pity that Milosevic did not live through the trial and get his deserved sentence. -- Stjepan Mesic
  • Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • I loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved -- Seema Gupta
  • Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it. -- Randall Munroe
  • My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too. -- Richard Pryor
  • I feel like when I give trust that isn't earned, I receive hurt that isn't deserved. -- Steve Maraboli
  • Respect can be offered and is deserved by a homeless man and so by a president. -- Unarine Ramaru
  • Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. -- Plautus
  • Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.] -- Ovid
  • Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. -- Jane Austen
  • Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. -- Jane Austen
  • The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. -- Pliny the Younger
  • Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place. -- John Stott
  • I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior, -- Beryl Bainbridge
  • If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. -- Oscar Wilde
  • 12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get. -- Glynn Turman
  • Success is reserved for you if you persevere; it's not deserved by you if you are indolent! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it. -- Miranda Lambert
  • To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. -- Sidney Poitier
  • You deserved to be loved. And I hope you get to marry for love and not a number. -- Kiera Cass
  • I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz. -- Alfred Nobel
  • A little arrogance in the hands of the capable is well earned - and in most case, deserved. -- Siddharth Katragadda
  • You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know. -- Stacy Buck
  • A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved. -- Mark Twain
  • I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it. -- Joe Jamail
  • ... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along. -- Patrick Stump
  • Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves. -- Joseph P. Farrell
  • This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • sometimes forgiving someone it's not because he's really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility. -- Glad Munaiseche
  • I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it. -- Norman Jewison
  • There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again. -- Alois Brunner
  • He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands. -- Edward Everett Hale
  • I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it. -- Samuel Adams
  • I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect. -- Lena Dunham
  • Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted. -- Robert Holden
  • When Hillary Clinton deserved to be praised, I praised her. When Donald Trump did, as well, I did that, too. -- Joe Scarborough
  • On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. -- John Calvin
  • God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant. -- Sophie Swetchine
  • Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves. -- Timothy Keller
  • Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. -- Anne Rice
  • How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled. "Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it. -- Maya Banks
  • No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. -- Ammianus Marcellinus
  • We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half. -- Fabio Capello
  • Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) -- Vince Flynn
  • For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged. -- Shirley Hazzard
  • For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously. -- Frederik Pohl
  • My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment. -- Lance Armstrong
  • Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved. -- Louis-Joseph Papineau
  • If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it. -- Andy Rooney
  • You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone. -- Tim Tebow
  • Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it. -- Joss Whedon
  • Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating. -- Stephen Curry
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