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Quotes about Doings

And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence - that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary. That, anyhow, is what I've tried to keep before myself. What you do on the earth, the earth makes permanent.
- Wendell Berry
From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
- Andrew Jackson
And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence—that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
- Wendell Berry
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
- William Faulkner
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
I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
God, who oft descends to visit men unseen, and through their habitations walks to mark their doings.
- John Milton