Merit Quotes

"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance."
-William S. Gilbert

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
-Mark Twain

"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."
-Sallust

"This litigation is completely without merit. The settlement bars future lawsuits, but it does not and cannot bar future legislation."
-Brian Mcclung

"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
-Igor Stravinsky

"Is simply untrue and without merit."
-Paul Reubens

"But they did, and it's amazing. It's a high, high honor. And they were each judged on their own merit."
-Janet Johnson

"Any addition or deletion has to go through the merit board. If there have been new [positions created], the merit board needs to be aware and brought up to date on it."
-Van Shaver

"I think what Ian said has a lot of merit."
-James Sutherland

"This is not a done deal, we are examining some parts of the order that may merit rehearing, ... We are encouraged by FERC's decision, but we are looking at some of the limitations in the order."
-Charles Robinson

"They told me something very interesting, they promote on merit. What a refreshing idea."
-Marilyn Tam

"The lawsuit is totally without merit and worthy of no further comment."
-Robert Morvillo

"The county obviously has found merit to what we were saying."
-Scott Kouchi

"I think it has merit and I'm not locked into it, but until somebody shows me something better, I like it."
-John Bryan

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

"It's a clear reflection the lawsuit was lacking in merit in the first place."
-Peter Stirba

"There is no merit to the allegations, Michael is innocent. This is in keeping with what we've said all along."
-Stuart Backerman

"We'll be seeking to exonerate Alan Brogan. We feel what happened did not merit a red card."
-John Costello

"We believe the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously."
-Steve Langdon

"I'm a law abiding citizen and I believe my public record of service stands on its own merit."
-Jim West

"If there is a Fourth Estate function, if the press is supposed to be an advocate watching out for the public interest, then cases like these merit the attention."
-John Mchale

"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."
-Francesco Petrarch

"This is a case without merit."
-Jennifer Millerwise

"We think they?re unsubstantiated and have no merit."
-Robin Pence

"There has always been some cause for concern about that. But I feel we have done a very good job at doing our homework on these projects, and really, we hope the public will look at each one of these projects as they stand on there own merit."
-Scot Mcneley

"Our biggest hope is that it wouldn't be long at all. This is just one isolated incident...It doesn't merit a total suspension."
-Ben Malor

"If they feel they're not there on merit that can also have very bad implications. It's really about getting the balance, about being active but also retaining the appearance that everyone is qualified and doing a good job."
-Michelle Ryan

"Virtually everything in that story was misleading and wrong. It was so full of errors that it's completely without merit."
-Theodore Pappas