Deeds Quotes
1458 Deeds quotes by 870 unique authors
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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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Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They…
— Jodi Picoult
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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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And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
— Elie Wiesel
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Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.
— William Shakespeare
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I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught…
— William Shakespeare
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He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony;…
— William Shakespeare
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
— Homer
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Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which…
— Thomas Hardy
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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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What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less…
— Hermann Hesse
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This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are…
— Winston Churchill
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Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only…
— Deborah Harkness
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I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like…
— Alexandre Dumas
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