Misdeeds Quotes

• Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.

  Mason Cooley

  Trouble, Prudence

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• Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

  Paul McCartney

  Lines, Pay

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• In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

  Epictetus

  Running, Anger, Men

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Inspirational, Sorry, Apology

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.113, University of Illinois Press

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• The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

  Geronimo

  Government, Racism, Soldier

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Determination, Greatness

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opportunity, Gun, Class

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.465, Jaico Publishing House

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• All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Humanity, Criminal Mind

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• Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.

  Craig Silvey

  Sorry, Pain, Sadness

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• My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Alcohol, Bed, Midnight

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

  Martin Luther

  Ugly, Pages, Forgotten

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• If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.

  Miroslav Volf

  Names, Suffering, Unseen

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• Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

  Nicholas Trist

  Banking, Spirit, Institutions

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• We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.

  Sidney Greenberg

  Men, Thinking, Mercy Of God

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• It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Father, Suffering

  "Picture Perfect". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.

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• It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Wind, Judging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2016

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• He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

  Jim Davis

  Rocks, Rivers, Pockets

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• To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.77, Cornell University Press

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• Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

  Mason Cooley

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• It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Effort, Pieces

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• Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.

  Lawrence Wright

  Cutting, Anxiety, Mind

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• Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  Juvenal

  Children, Powerful, Reason

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• The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not a public man. Particularly not this one.

  Anna Quindlen

  Lying, Men, Ordinary

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