Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rig Veda

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

Elie Wiesel

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Baha'u'llah

Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

Lech Walesa

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Blaise Pascal

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

William Shakespeare

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Agnes Varda

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Djuna Barnes

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Alan Arkin

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

Suzanne Fields

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Rig Veda

Laziness begets nothing but failures and lost opportunities.

Sathya Baba

If others must serve you, serve them first; love begets love; trust engenders trust.

Muhammad Yunus

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

Thomas Dekker

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

Brady Corbet

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

Suze Orman

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth. A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out. When you consciously open, read, and file away your bills and statements, you are connecting with your money and taking control of your life.

Allison Jones

I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.