Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Take care of your inner beauty, your spiritual beauty, and that will reflect in your face. We have the face we created… — Dolores del Rio Copy Share Image
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Now the greatest external good we should assume to be the thing which we offer as a tribute to the gods, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and… — Moses Copy Share Image
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience.… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for… — Dennis Merzel Copy Share Image
Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
“And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist… — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is… — Sidney Greenberg Copy Share Image
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