Top 1200 Deeds And Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.

Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me

The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail.

When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.

...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions.

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead / Robbed of my voice I'm always giving / Thousands of words to this nameless dread.

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!

As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.