Quotes About Deed

It was as though a deed of conveyance of her narrow loins had been drawn and sealed. I was making my first entry as the freeholder of a property I would enjoy and develop at leisure.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

This is a fairy flower,' said the Elf, 'invisible to every eye save yours; now listen while I tell its power. When your heart is filled with loving thoughts, when some kindly deed has been done, some duty well performed, then from the flower there will arise the sweetest, softest fragrance, to reward and gladden you.

CATTLE DIE, KINDRED DIE, EVERY MAN IS MORTAL: BUT I KNOW ONE THING THAT NEVER DIES, THE GLORY OF THE GREAT DEED. FROM HÁVAMÁL, THE SPEECH OF THE HIGH ONE

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

She had done the deed with credible efficiency. With style, even. She had committed murder with an effing kitty-cat statue in a beautiful state park over a massive and scenic ravine. There had not been a single witness. She had left no blood anywhere.

White liberals weren't loud racists. They were simply racial philanthropists who, after a good deed, return to their suburban homes with their white picket fences or to their apartments in segregated cities with their consciences content.

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes.

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

It still stops my having any feeling of pride when people think well of what I do, for I say to myself: Since any small good deed I do can be mistaken for a fault, the mistake of calling a fault a virtue can be made just as easily.

One does not become an outcast by birth, one does not become a Brahmin by birth. It is by deed that one becomes an outcast, it is by deed that one becomes a Brahmin." The

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

Search by Intelligence Agencies stay as Spying; conversely, search by journalists become as Investigation. The first circle dresses Confidential dress and other twists appreciably in Public; factually, both faculties abuse privacy and practice the same deed, but one faces the critique, and other receives gratitude; such conduct executes distinction between that, which should be not a context.

The truth of the words' definition is action.

Public display of donation is neither a charity nor a deed of humanity, but only seeking publicity or a work of a crafty person.

My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything.