Merit Quotes

With regard to the merit, I hope that the prosecutors will ask to close the case. - Niccolo Ghedini

With Microsoft, there's always a question of whether it's a home release or a business release. There's a feeling by some that because home and business share a lot of the same components, Microsoft just makes the market target bigger by talking about those common features. But that makes businesses feel uncertain, and there's some merit to that feeling. - Michael Silver

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame. - George Eliot

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. - Nick Rahall

Why do we hear such everlasting negative talk! People all imagine they'll be giving something away if they recognize the least bit of merit. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wholly without merit, both factually and legally. - Denny Chin

Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will. - Lord Chesterfield

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. - The Talmud