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Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move. -- Arthur Symons
On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. -- Rob Bell
It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings. -- Jessica Valenti
From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger. -- Andrew Jackson
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. -- H. L. Mencken
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. -- Wendell Berry
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings? -- John Calvin
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men. -- Jacques Maritain
The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life. -- Frederick Lenz
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.] -- Juvenal
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few. -- Larry McMurtry
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. -- Erich Fromm
From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings. -- Russell Peters
In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied. -- Thomas Frank
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings. -- J. C. Ryle
Misunderstanding are always cause by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. The best way to dispel ignorance of the doings of others is by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thoughts intercourse. -- Nikola Tesla
What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit. -- George Eliot
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father. -- George Bernard Shaw
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. -- Charles Dickens
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy; your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms; and your need is the motive for heavenly goodness. Go as you are, and let your miseries plead for you. -- Charles Spurgeon
For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom. -- Plato
Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on. -- Bob Marley
A man is accountable to no person for his doings. -- James Otis
By God ye shall be called to account for your doings! -- Elijah Muhammad
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ... -- Han Suyin
God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings. -- John Milton
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. -- Ambrose Bierce
We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others. -- Thomas a Kempis
Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings. -- Louise Hart
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. -- Charles Darwin
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country. -- Michael Parenti
You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions). -- Larry Moss
Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others. -- David A. Bednar
Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others." -- David A. Bednar
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president. -- Jill Lepore
We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. -- Charles Spurgeon
So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will. -- Albert Einstein
There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. -- Finley Peter Dunne
Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you. -- Jeremiah
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. -- Finley Peter Dunne
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed. -- Simon Conway Morris
To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings. -- Bernard Law Montgomery
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk. -- Rabindranath Tagore
we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings. -- Elizabeth I
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929) -- Albert Einstein

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