Doings Quotes
72 quotes by 67 authors
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
— H. L. Mencken
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
— Nikola Tesla
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Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot…
— Albertus Magnus
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
— H. L. Mencken
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Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look…
— John Graunt
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…
— George Wilson
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Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions…
— Zhuangzi
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There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days that lie ahead…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
— Michael Parenti
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If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image…
— J C Ryle
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We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to…
— Clarence Darrow
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You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing…
— Emma Curtis Hopkins
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We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.
— Thomas a Kempis
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I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as…
— James Branch Cabell
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It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable…
— Simon Conway Morris
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From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
— Andrew Jackson
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