Quotes About Deed

Ye're playing fer the house? But ye won it just a month ago! Why,this land is worth more than yer estate near Stirling! Now that he'd toured the land and knew the true condition of the house, Dougal was tempted to agree. The deed to MacFarlane House was worth far more than he'd originally thought. Shelton shook his head. Ye're moonstruck, me lord. Moonstruck and fairy-pinched.

First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller. Images. I had seen that word before—at least six times before on my annual reading sojourn to the sheriff's office. The word was connected to a deed and the deed was connected to an act and that act had been committed by a man and that man, I now understood, was connected to you.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

Pause and remember-- Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!

Kind deed is a seed of love.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. And where the thought is mighty and pure, the result is mighty and pure.

Records of Nevis, they received a deed to property

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.

It was the dream itself enchanted me: Character isolated by a deed To engross the present and dominate memory. Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. [from "The Circus Animals' Desertion"]