Deserves

Famous quotes containing the word deserves:

“The very presence of guilt, let alone its tenacity, implies imbalance: Something, we suspect, is getting more of our energy than warrants, at the expense of something else, we suspect, that deserves more of our energy than we’re giving.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)

“Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one’s own inclination.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“He well deserves to be called, as he has been called, the Defender of the Constitution.... He is not a leader, but a follower. His leaders are the men of ‘87.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)