Undoing Quotes

66 Undoing quotes by 62 unique authors

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the… — Margery Allingham
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology,… — John Zerzan
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is… — Simon Bolivar
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. — Carl Rakosi
Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. — Swami Satchidananda
I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved,… — Lester Levenson
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. — William Shakespeare
We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution. — Pema Chodron
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. — Horace Mann
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward… — Charles Rangel
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step,… — Charles Schumer
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as… — Daniel Quinn
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn… — Bram Stoker
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. — Agatha Christie
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the… — Louise Erdrich
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. — Theodore Roethke
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. — Kate DiCamillo
Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze… — Maya Banks
Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she… — Kiersten White
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are I've assigned myself a new obligation.… — Muriel Barbery
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is… — Veronica Roth
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. — Virginia Woolf

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