Deed Quotes
570 quotes by 417 authors
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If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To…
— Yukio Mishima
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If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
— William Shakespeare
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What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment…
— Martin Buber
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if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.
— C.S. Lewis
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If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what…
— Damon Galgut
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But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A little water clears us of this deed.
— William Shakespeare
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
— William Wordsworth
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Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of…
— Rick Yancey
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Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not…
— Samuel Beckett
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The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but…
— Daniel Handler
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I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only…
— Sarah Vowell
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My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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A woman’s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over,…
— Christopher Moore
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
— Henrik Ibsen
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A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good…
— Dale Carnegie
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You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the…
— Janet Evanovich
Who Wrote These Deed Quotes
417 authors contributed a total of 570 Deed Quotes, led by these top contributors: