#deserve

You don't deserve to understand truth if all that you want is just the normal life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#normal-life #truth #life

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#accepted #adult #amazement #american #character

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#cause #contrary #earthly #last #longer

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#forgotten #none #remembered #some #undeservedly

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#deserve #doing #duty #ought #our

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life. ↗

— Joe Baca

#children #deserve #life #much #our

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

#believe #cards #contract #cut #deserved

But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent. ↗

— Mos Def

#decent #deserve #even #halfway #live

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed. ↗

— Bob Dole

#cultivate #deserve #moral #name #names

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? ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#champagne #competition #deserve #entitlement #i