Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means – and in any context, whether it’s judicial or otherwise – I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise – and to the best in benefits and medical care.
I took what I’ve been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued – merit.
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature’s essence.
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.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop’s critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite’s entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward mobility, and the promise that ‘merit’ correlates with talents and deserts.
I feel that, in the WWE, everyone is given the same opportunities to succeed based on merit, and I think the crowd likes who they like. There are people that like us, and there are people that won’t like us.
I don’t say ‘Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
I think, in history, we often see a false representation of women. The men are always the successors and, supposedly, of their own merit, which I don’t believe to be to true.
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.’
Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple’s rebuilding?
Leaders are judged on merit and not on caste or family names.
I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.
In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call ‘authentic’ or ‘natural.’
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.
I’m sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn’t Errol Flynn. But I’m me. I think that’s got some merit.
I support immigration, provided the people come through legally, and that is based upon merit.
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they’ll say, ‘Oh that’s dumb, you believe in whatever,’ but I think everybody believes in something.
Television is a business and, financially speaking, they have decisions and considerations that go far beyond the creative merit of the show. But at the same time, you’d like to believe in a man’s word. When he shakes your hand and says he’s going to stay with it, and doesn’t, it’s really frustrating in a way.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don’t want collaborations regardless of their merit.
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.
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.
I’m hoping to see some minorities in executive offices in positions of power, people who see the merit of projects with minority themes. That may or may not happen.
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.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
I get asked about my weight endlessly. There is no story. It doesn’t merit so much talk.
I’m trying to be global and trying to push us, as a society, to becoming colorblind, and so I’m very grateful to ABC for casting me in ‘Quantico.’ It was based on my merit, not on my ethnicity.
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
The UFC and WEC didn’t give me anything. Everything I conquered was my merit and from my team.
I’ve learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I’m going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.
I was determined to make it big on sheer merit.
I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.
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.
My work has spoken for itself, and I’ve been offered work purely on merit.
In honor of Surgeon General Koop’s legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.
‘You, too, can be the President,’ every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as a result of our being a meritocracy, if you have not succeeded, you are of lesser merit. It is shameful to be a failure in this country.
I don’t have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don’t think it is a merit.
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the ‘war on terror.’ In contrast, Washington’s withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.
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.
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
The merit of ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,’ then – or its offence, depending where you stood – was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
I think that our family is very fortunate, very lucky, that on their own merit, from themselves, using whatever means necessary, singing Qawwali, in all corners and areas, in every place, singing in villages, they’ve promoted it.
‘Men with Guns’ – the producer’s cut did not have the artistic and intellectual merit I hoped for, although I am still very proud of the work.
Specifically, and contrary to misguided directives, I limited the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, promoted by the Administration as a panacea, but which clearly lack scientific merit.
A person who shakes a leg to ‘Zor ka jhatka’ at a disc doesn’t care about its picturization in the film. He enjoys and downloads it because of the merit of the song.
