Deeds Quotes - Page 24

• Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Care, Said, Thankless

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “KIDNAPPED (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.132, StoneHenge Classics

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• For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Smell, Turns

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.168

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• The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.

  John Jakes

  Children, Pain, Knowing

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• Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of having a strong testimony, living the principles of the gospel, loving home, wanting to be a mother in Zion, and supporting you in your priesthood responsibilities. Of course, she should be attractive to you.... And one good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Strong, Responsibility

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

  Clive Barker

  Regret, Too Late, Done

  Clive Barker (2010). “Galilee”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Deeds Done, Done

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.455, Wordsworth Editions

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• We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

  Dave Eggers

  Loss, Past, Soul

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• Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Home

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Historical, Liberty, Bankers

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• In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Heart, Soul

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Evil, Water

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• A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Character, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Farewell, Loss, Play

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 19, 2012

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• Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Light, Color

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• So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Taken, Reality, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3487, Delphi Classics

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• I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

  Etty Hillesum

  Believe, Creativity, Writing

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.318, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

  Rumi

  Life, Sweet, Kindness

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• The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

  Keith Ablow

  Pain, Roots, Evil

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• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Hero, Brave

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Men, Evil, Broken

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2006). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.289, Penguin

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• The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Essence, Abundance

  "Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Asl-i-Kullu'l-Khayr (Words of Wisdom))". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, 1978.

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• This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Men, Light

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.182, Vintage

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• In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

  Alberto Manguel

  Dream, Engineering, Law

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.10, Vintage Canada

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• I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

  Ian Fleming

  Deeds And Words, Poet, Deeds Not Words

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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