Doing The Deed Quotes

#1. Bagged her? What does that even mean?" I asked, already wishing I hadn't. "Intimate relations. Intercourse. Coitus. Doing the deed. Nookie. Fornicating. Laying pipe. Screwing. Sex. Tapping that ass. Fucking. Need I go on?

Jamie McGuire

#2. You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym.

Janet Evanovich

#3. The only good deed I'll be doing tonight is for the angels."
"The angels?"
"Haven't you heard? Every time I make you come, an angel gets his wings."
Brady dropped his smoky gaze to Gage's mouth for a beat. "We really need to leave. Now.

Kate Meader

#4. The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

John Piper

#5. But there is no such substratum; there is no "being" behind doing, effecting, becoming; "the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Other response, he said, I make thee not,
Except the doing; for the modest asking
Ought to be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

#7. Till now they send him dreams and no more deed;
So doth he flame again with might for action,
Forgetful of the council of the elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle,
Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him
So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.

Ezra Pound

#8. What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#9. Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

Margaret Preston

#10. Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will.

Edmund Spenser

#11. In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

Tom Hodgkinson

#12. As small as it may seem, a good deed is always worth the doing.

Spark Matsunaga

#13. Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

David B. Haight

#14. When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it

Martin Luther

#15. We three just stared. I thought of Macbeth's witches huddled around their cauldron. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What is't you do?
A deed without a name.
We were as quiet as the gravestones around us.

Tessa Gratton

#16. The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

T. S. Eliot

#17. To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Elvis Presley

#18. Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

Martin Luther

#19. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

Dolly Parton

#20. The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Josiah Royce

#21. If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.

William Shakespeare

#22. The ancestral deed is thought and done,
And in a million Edens fall
A million Adams drowned in darkness,
For small is great and great is small,
And a blind seed all.

Edwin Muir