Deeds Quotes
1458 quotes by 870 authors
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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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Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming,…
— Neal Shusterman
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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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Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.
— J R Ward
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I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and…
— Anne Frank
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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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With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the…
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
— Juliet Marillier
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If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
— Friedrich Schiller
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For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
— Henry Miller
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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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As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
— Elizabeth Kostova
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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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Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don’t forget you’re one of a kind When nobody’s checking the deeds you’ve done And nobody’s hearing…
— Jason Mraz
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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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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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