#deed

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. ↗

— George Eliot

#afar #been #deeds #makes #our

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. ↗

— David Bohm

#attempt #confronting #crises #essence #extremely

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. ↗

— Euripides

#called #console #critical #critical time #deeds

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#also #being #criticisms #deal #deeds

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#afghanistan #between #community #coordination #country

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#indeed #iraqi #iraqi people #people #quickly

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

#acquiring #advance #any #attained #degree

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#beating #becomes #contented #day #deeds

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#any #become #cold #come #established

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#become #eventually #idea #indeed #just