Deeds Quotes
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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
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A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
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Even a smile is a good deed.
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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
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How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.
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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
