Undone Quotes

264 Undone quotes by 226 unique authors

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward… — C.S. Lewis
In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have… — Maya Angelou
It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you… — David Sedaris
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first… — Arundhati Roy
A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time… — Pema Chodron
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a… — Wallace Stegner
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,… — Louisa May Alcott
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. — Judith Butler
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live… — George Orwell
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it… — Judith Butler
I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little.… — Lloyd Alexander
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid. — Anna Quindlen
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk… — Saul Williams
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on… — Markus Zusak
Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted. — Brennan Manning
What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears -… — Lisa Kleypas
... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard… — Russell Brand
As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished. — Jose Saramago
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light… — Helen Keller
The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is… — Jonathan Coe
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go… — John Green
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. — Isobelle Carmody

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