Deeds Quotes - Page 29

• 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 a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, People, Brave

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• A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Worry, Effort

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• You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym.

  Janet Evanovich

  Horse, Men, Thinking

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.254, Macmillan

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• In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

  Charlaine Harris

  Ties, People, Debt

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead As A Doornail: A True Blood Novel”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Believe, Simple

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Demand, Rewards, Cruelty

  "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis, California Books Inc., (p. 36), August 7, 2014.

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• See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, Men, Greatest Fear

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.540, Simon and Schuster

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• They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.

  Karen Maitland

  Blessed, Men, Waiting

  Karen Maitland (2011). “The Gallows Curse”, p.126, Penguin UK

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• Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

  Charles Dickens

  War, Men, Long

  Charles Dickens, Bernard Shaw, Charles Pears, Frederick Barnard (1912*). “Old curiosity shop; coloured reproductions from ... drawing by Fred Barnard”

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• It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Suits, Tvs

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Saturday)". Book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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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 an act of humanity.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Mother, Father, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Edition”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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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, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

  Neal Shusterman

  World, Judgment, Apocalypse

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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 hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Heart, Eye

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Satanic, Beholder

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.141, Penguin

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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 then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

  Anne Frank

  Hurt, Feelings, Pay

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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 wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Reflection, Views, Europe

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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 of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Mean, Men, Land

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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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 learn to find Him there.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Art, Believe, Simple

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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 farm gave it a thought, he would at least do his best to, even though he suspected that his child's words and child's deeds didn't make much difference. It had stood there before he was born, and would be standing there after he was dead, but perhaps, even so, it was pleased that he stroked its bark every time he passed, and sometimes, when he was sure he wasn't observed, even pressed his cheek against it.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Children, Heart, Compassion

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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

  Religious, Sake, Doing Good

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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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

  Art, Please, Ifs

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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

  Adventure, Self, Space

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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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 to demand expression. It is like childbirth. The poet has nothing to be proud of. He is not master of the situation, but a servant. Creative work is his only possible form of existence, and his every work is like a deed he has no power to annul. For him to be aware that the sequence of such deeds is due and ripe, that it lies in the very nature of things, he has to have faith in the idea; for only faith interlocks the system of images for which read system of life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mistake, Lying, Artist

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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

  Life, Thinking, Evil

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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