Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their in….

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and b….

God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise..

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit..

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other..

The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey to merit life. The Law has b….

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abjec….

To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either..

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our ….

No one is mandating merit pay..

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves..

Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a….

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits..

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Sc….