111 Merit Quotes for You to Enjoy

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. Frederick Pollock

You Political Will Revolution Side Consider See Fact Merit Gospel Essay Century Working Pamphlet

Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit. Gary Paulsen

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit. Hari Kunzru

Myself Enjoy Think Thinking Other Way Some Merit Like Doing Lot Historical Times Conventions Places Novel

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. Henry Lawson

Eyes Independence Become Our Respected Extremes Carry Shall Never Individuality Study Merit Until Understood Accorded Than Hitherto Closer Us English Asserting Sufficient Consequence

It's hard to judge literary merit. Henry Rollins

Judge Merit Literary Hard

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. Henryk Sienkiewicz

Work Result Evidently Merit Depends

How vain, without the merit, is the name. Homer

Vain Merit Name Without How

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. Horace

Man Long Parents Be A Man Born He Merit Consequence

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures. James Balog

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published. James E. Gunn

Good You Adequately Recognize Some Give Could Had Participants Merit Names Editor Been Being Who Many Workshop Published Right

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. Jean Henri Fabre

Ignorance Learning Feeling Say Unable At Least One Absence Perfect Absolutely Merit Sincerity Without Answer Am Least Confess Appearance

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well. Jim Barksdale

Merit Well Very Where Compete

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now. Joe Dempsie

Game Every Medium Everyone Savvy Toss More Gives No-One Cruise Merit Concept Because Makes Becoming Audiences Goes Any Just Just Because Movie Far Tom Tom Cruise Now Actor Watch Raise

Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate to a debut blogger. They all get PEN's attention. John Ralston Saul

Protection Pen Laureate Writer Writers Nobel Attention Merit Real Bloggers Governments Debut Get Anyone Certain Suggesting

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. John Zimmerman

Family Pride Merit Makes Antiquity Duration Boasting Stand

I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it. Jonathan Anderson

Love You Respect Wow Something Invincible Feel Merit Look Make Because Understand Always Go Up Skill Means Enlightening

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts. Jonathan Haidt

Power Corrupts Equality Seriously Stress Corrupts Power Think Earned Correct Favor Outcomes More Take Merit Blind Forced Because Inequality Rewards Republicans Income Income Inequality Right Need

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. Knut Hamsun

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I judge people based on merit, on personality. Lauren Southern

People Judge Personality Merit Based

Merit should count more than academic background. Lee Myung-bak

Background More Count Merit Academic Than Should

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. Lord Byron

Great Nothing Mine Out Finding Merit Discernment Amiable Her

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