Quotes of: Merit Keyword

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

Donald Cargill

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Mikhail Bakunin

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Frances Wright

When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.

Imran Khan

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

Charles Baudelaire

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

Jules Verne

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Tammy Baldwin

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

William Nicholson

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Paul Gauguin

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

The Shadow of the Wind

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

The Age of Uncertainty

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

Neale Donald Walsch

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.

Park Geun-hye

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Paul Scofield

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

Sophie Kinsella

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Samuel Richardson

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.

Steven Weber

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

T Bone Burnett

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Tom Coburn

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Thomas a Kempis