Pastoral Resources

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

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

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

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.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.