Deserves

Famous quotes containing the word deserves:

“The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“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)

“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)