Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
Joseph Priestley

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
Stanislaw Lec

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
Lech Walesa

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
Beverly Sills

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo Leopardi

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Edward W. Howe

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
Jack Lemmon

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
Barry Sheene

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.
Joshua Homme

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Waylon Jennings

One lucky shot deserves another.
Shaquille O'Neal

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
Dag Hammarskjold

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
George Ryan

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan

Over the last 10-15 years, you've seen soccer finally start to grow at a fast pace, start to get the recognition it deserves, and I think it has to do with all of the people who come to America from foreign countries.
Claudio Reyna