#deserved

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#deserved #destiny #fame #inevitable #only

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#compliment #deserved #enormous #i #jackie

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job. ↗

— Ian St. John

#away #been #deserved #get #got

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#escape #glad #hanging #hath #may

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#deserved #i #i always #nobel #prize

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. ↗

— Anne Rice

#death #deserved #hell #karma #lestat

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

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad #controversy #criticized #deserved #felt

I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#be a man #deserved #going #grown #had

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#deserved #half #nine #probably #red