#serves

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. ↗

— Voltaire

#pretext #serves #wicked

With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy. ↗

— Zack Wamp

#change #diverse #energy #face #fact

God deserves the best from us. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#deserves #god #us

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#back #balance #countries #days #deficits

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. ↗

— U Thant

#deserves #each #even #every #human

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#fault #how #justly #knows #nature

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#bank #getting #interest #interests #israeli

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach. ↗

— Les Baxter

#attain #belongs #certainly #deserves #enough

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#mean #morality #philosophy #practice #produces

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor. ↗

— Jack Lemmon

#certainly #deserves #money #much #nobody