Deed Quotes

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I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during… — Charles Bukowski
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the… — Jeanette Winterson
Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you. — Pythagoras
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of… — Isaac Asimov
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! — Edgar Allan Poe
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies… — Michel de Montaigne
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption. — Paulo Coelho
Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an adult, but all… — Kelly Corrigan
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who… — Margaret Mitchell
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are… — Khalil Gibran
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can… — Henry Adams
The only way to lose a kingdom is if your power drops or..well, if you're killed." "I'm sure Volusian would love to help with that."… — Richelle Mead
No good deed goes unpunished- Syn — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering… — Oscar Wilde
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people… — Brennan Manning
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is… — Epictetus
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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