Deed Quotations

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed

No one but YOU owns the title deed to your dream.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Persons of virtuous deeds, whose deed has come to an end, become free from the delusion of dualities and worship Me with firm resolve.

If we had a pot of money, what we'd want to do would be to deed restrict them, then discount them like 10 percent. That would cover why you're doing a deed restriction.

But it would not necessarily be called for since they have performed. You can look at the situation now and look at the glass half-empty or half-full. Everybody needs to be comfortable with the deal, but the city has to let the developer follow its own path. It's been conveyed to the council previously that the clubhouse wouldn't proceed unless the hotel did. As of right now they're not bothering with the hotel until they can get the deed changed.

I don't think you would ever see that again. I haven't seen any deed restrictions that would allow for that.

God is in every word of yours,Every deed and thought.  

If Tim McVeigh is such a monster, why didn't he shoot the cop when he pulled him over? ... ...if McVeigh had done such a dastardly deed that's what he would have done.

I thought the quitclaim deed to Gary ought to have it worked out.

I will never sign the deed transfer on that property,

Render every thought into a flower worthy to be held in His Fingers; render every deed into a fruit, full of the sweet juice of Love fit to be placed in His Hand; render every tear holy and pure, fit to wash His Lotus Feet.

Man is, they say, a monkey that has lost its tail; well, he must lose many more attributes of the monkey before he is entitled to call himself Man. He must dedicate his thought, word and deed to God and surrender to His Will. Then only is this animal entitled to become a Man in whom the Divine is enshrined.

The American side deliberately distorts facts related to a visit to Minsk by U.S. and EU representatives. We proceed from the assumption that Belarus and the United States have relations of their own, determined by a whole set of different factors. That's why we suggested separate visits. We hope our American and European partners will demonstrate in deed and not in word their constructive attitude towards cooperation with Belarus.

Whoever was responsible for this evil deed was certainly no friend of the peace process and no friend of anybody on this island.

You know there are a number of challenges here. The first thing that we have to recognize is that there are a lot of evil, mean, despicable people in America that have fun doing this type of dirty deed ... a false tip.

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

Times have changed, and when the deed was written, it was a very different time. We think they wanted to limit people coming from out of town, and for instance, in the early 1900s soccer was considered a hooligan sport. Troublemakers played soccer.

Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I get to keep all the cotton. Hire me some men to work it for me. Gin my cotton. Get my seed.

We ... view it as an anti-immigrant issue. You can't have a deed restriction saying, 'No Latinos.' But they're trying to have local ordinances that say immediate families (only). ... Are they going back to the white families to see if a cousin is living there? The answer is no. It truly is directed at the new Latino immigrant population.

We will do whatever is necessary to close down any loopholes, real or perceived. She wants to ensure that the original intent of the Empire Tract deed cannot be circumvented.

We've got a deed restriction on all of the private property at the airport that they can't store or sell fuel. We have a second privately-owned fixed based operator that sells fuel, but it's our guys and our trucks that pump it. They only make a commission on the fuel they sell.

We have a deed to it. We feel like we own that.

With Good Samaritans, some do a good deed and just leave. We have made a good effort to contact them all but we may have missed some.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.

The wish is the father of the deed

It was very shocking and outrageous, ... It put us in shock that someone could just change the warranty deed without our acknowledgement.

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Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed

Are they really any worse off? At least they can hope they can purchase the house back - maybe get a better job or a second job. People that have pursued claims against Deed and Note and others say, 'This is just terrible. You stole their equity.' We did them a favor. We let them stay in the house.

Any thought, speech or deed causing harms to other is 'sin' while anything which is beneficial for others... gives joy to others is 'virtue'.

And then Richard was, my son was born, and this is another new deed to take care of him and I very happy I have a very good family.

This corrupt deed by state legislators will energize voters to sign the http://www.VoteYesMarriage.com petition a month from now, to protect marriage rights for one man and one woman once and for all,

They're not going to make anything, but neither will they lose anything because they're not selling in those countries anyway. So it's a good public deed on their part, which is why I think most of this is public relations.

It seems that all this in our view falls under the heading of that facetious remark no good deed goes unpunished.

For every cruel deed done to others only the innocent remain strong.

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

It varies according to how the deed is worded.

I'm going for the brevity award this year, ... To receive this award among so many great artists is in deed an honor.

I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished.

In reality, the fallout is never as drastic as we think it is. People move on. Once you say no, people move on to find somebody else to do the deed for whatever they need done.

I have to do a good deed for the community. I have to do five things, so I thought this was a good idea. It's important because one day you're going to need that blessing and one day they'll repay you and you'll feel really good about yourself.

Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, Brood of Morgoth, or Bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread, nor danger, not doom Itself shall defend him from Feanor and Feanor's kin whoso hideth or hordeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth, or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: Death we will deal him ere day's ending. Woe unto the world's end! Our words hesar thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountian hear in witness and our vow remember Manwe and Varda!

For note, when evening shuts, / A certain moment cuts / The deed off, calls the glory from the grey.

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.

The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial

A Deed knocks first at Thought / And then -- it knocks at Will -- / That is the manufacturing spot.

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world