Deed Quotes
570 quotes by 407 authors
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And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is…
— Philip Pullman
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And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good…
— C.S. Lewis
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Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of…
— Vasily Grossman
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but…
— Alexandre Dumas
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What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my…
— William Shakespeare
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Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a…
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the…
— Victor Hugo
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Another last-minute, good-deed job,†Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. “True,†Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, “but this…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?†Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway.…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be…
— Terry Pratchett
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I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one shall…
— George R. R. Martin
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When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies…
— Charles Baxter
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Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from…
— Nhat Hanh
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For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it…
— Sándor Márai
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The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
— Elvis Presley
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to…
— James Russell Lowell
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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Deed Quotes
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