#worthy

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention. ↗

— Jay Dratler

#attention #case #completely #discovered #i

I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility. ↗

— King Hassan II

#allow #beg #double #favour #finds

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#belonging #comforted #community #free #free nations

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#awards #comedy #consideration #deserving #drama

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#be happy #do the right thing #even #feel #happiness

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#flatterer #loves #worthy

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#became #did #different #follow #i

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die. ↗

— John Stossel

#companies #competition #die #drug companies #leads

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid