[P]erhaps this was how you knew a good deed was truly good: you didn’t necessarily feel better afterwards.
– Franois Lelord
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- [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. – Christopher Hitchens
- Giving up isn’t a deed. It is ‘discontinuity’ of a deed. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one. – Junayd
- When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe. – Lenore Kandel
- Don´t make people feel necessarily happy. Make them feel useful. – Alin Sav
- I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them – Maurice Sendak
- Flawed, we’re truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful. – Justina Chen
- The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles. – Samuel R Delany
- A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed. – Adhish Mazumder
- Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great. – Alin Sav
- Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. – Galileo Galilei
- I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterwards. – Russell Brand
- Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin
- A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. – George Eliot
- It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note -“ it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong. – Miles Davis
- Have a scaffold erected in the square. We shall hang a traitor or two before dinner. And perhaps afterwards as well.- – Princess Karena – Thaddeus White
- Have a scaffold erected in the square. We shall hang a traitor or two before dinner. And perhaps afterwards as well. – Thaddeus White
- The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterwards. – Anonymous
- A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. – Haruki Murakami
- We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever. – Ray Anyasi
- By all means judge and react, but at some point afterwards be sure to reflect and switch sides. The next time you might be less quick to react. – Nina Joshi Ramsey
- …I want to live doubly – first with you and then afterwards in memory … – John Geddes
- Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled – Leila Aboulela
- But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her. – PL Travers
- All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good. – Jonathan Edwards
- A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards. – Michael Monroe
- None of us gets to choose how we’re born, it’s what we make of ourselves afterwards. – Kenneth Oppel
- The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there’s a happy ending. – Felicia Day
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. – Anatole France
- That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering… – Agatha Christie
- When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. – Jonathan Swift
- There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. – George Orwell