Top 100 Quotes About Undone
#1. They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust.
Cormac McCarthy
#3. Pause and remember - The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!
Jennifer Young
#4. We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
Martin Luther
#5. An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris
#6. She couldn't "heal" him. No woman could. Events that far in the past just couldn't be undone. But perhaps he didn't need a cure, but . . . a lens. Someone who accepted him for the imperfect person he was, and then helped him to see the world clear. Like spectacles did for her.
Tessa Dare
#7. I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#8. I know many a strong man undone by marriage.
Clive Barker
#9. Just know that what's done can be undone, but what's undone can never again be.
Alice Hoffman
#10. Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway ... Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.
Michelle Obama
#11. The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#13. He answered my plea with a roar and our chests met hard as we came undone together. Came so perfectly undone together.
Lucian Bane
#14. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.
Margaret Atwood
#15. The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.
Paul Hoffman
#16. One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.
Samael Aun Weor
#17. But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope.
John Hart
#18. 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 to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.
David Sedaris
#19. When we learn to live well in this life with nothing left unsaid or undone we find peace, freedom and full self-expression. With that, we are capable of anything.
Jacqueline Harrison
#20. Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
Susan Mitchell
#21. In every man's life there is something he feels driven to do, something that pricks him at the core of his soul so long as it remains undone, and yet as he approaches the doing of it he will know fear, for perhaps to fulfill the obsession will bring him more pain than pleasure.
Robert Silverberg
#22. I do not love thee less for what is done,
And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
My love will have a sense of pity in it,
Making it less a worship than before.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.
Liu Bei
#24. The world economy is not yet a community
not even an economic community ... Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.
Peter Drucker
#25. Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. I thought that once I got to this city nothing could ever catch up with me because I could remake my life daily. Once that had made me feel infinite. Now I was certain I would never learn. Being remade was the same thing as being constantly undone.
Stephanie Danler
#27. There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.
Marilynne Robinson
#28. 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,
Seeking with hand and heart
The teacher whom she learned to love
Before she knew t'was Art.
Louisa May Alcott
#29. So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys.
Mike Wilson
#30. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.
Rick Yancey
#31. I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
Bill Nighy
#32. SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.
Piet Hein
#33. I have a choice. I can whine about things that have happened, and can't be undone, or I can make the best of the situation I'm in.
Michelle Diener
#34. And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.
Edith Stein
#35. David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.
Nicole Krauss
#37. Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
Zora Neale Hurston
#38. 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 on air
through vacant lots
Saul Williams
#39. Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.
Mary Downing Hahn
#40. There's no foreplay quite like youthful exploration, when each undone button is cause for exaltation.
Megan Hart
#41. Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.
Francine Rivers
#42. Jesus did not die for our righteousness, but He died for our sins. He did not come to save us because we were worth the saving, but because we were utterly worthless, ruined, and undone.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#43. Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.
Ryu Murakami
#45. Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Gautama Buddha
#46. The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something
Marcus Aurelius
#47. White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
Edith Sitwell
#48. Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
Isobelle Carmody
#49. Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.
Gautama Buddha
#50. The morning sleeper Has much undone The quick will catch the prize.
James L. Nelson
#51. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
Gerda Lerner
#52. Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#53. I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.
Maggie Nelson
#54. Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
Lin Yu Tang
#55. In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.
Charles R. Swindoll
#56. What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
Ann Voskamp
#57. In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Martha Beck
#58. It wasn't peaceful, no light at the end of a tunnel or any of that crap. Only fear and regret for all the things I'd left undone.
Emily Bleeker
#59. The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.
Chuck Todd
#60. Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
Ken Wilber
#62. Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.
Lisa Genova
#63. Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?
Pythagoras
#64. Aware of how tenuous life can be. How too many things go unsaid or undone. How we wait too long and miss the chance." "Miss
Suanne Laqueur
#65. A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Marcus Aurelius
#66. The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
Peter Gabriel
#67. I'm broken, but I have to learn how to live. I feel stuck together with scotch tape, like after any breath everything could come apart. If it does, if it all comes undone, I think I'll fall down and never rise again.
Anna White
#68. The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.
Rae Armantrout
#69. The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers
a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
Shirley Chisholm
#70. When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott
#71. My life is a catalog of the undone and the never-will-be-done. The
Rick Yancey
#72. Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.
Sri Aurobindo
#73. Mistakes can be fixed. Bad decisions can be undone. Model houses can be rebuilt. And perfection is only a word that makes you feel bad about yourself.
Jessica Brody
#74. I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.
Gertrude Stein
#75. Death! I had not thought Death had undone so many
T. S. Eliot
#76. He said it aloud, because there was no reason to be silent. "I am - undone. She has undone me."
And his hand closed around the glass slipper.
Eloisa James
#77. The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy's face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts.
Markus Zusak
#78. By oneself is evil done, by oneself is one made impure. By oneself is evil undone, by oneself is one made pure. Each one is responsible for purity and impurity. No one can cleanse another.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#79. It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them.
Robin Hobb
#81. ...sex is a commitment. You are gifting another human being with access to the deepest part of yourself; you are sharing with them a bit of your soul. You are forging a connection that can never be undone--no matter how much you may want to undo it after the fact.
Zofie Kae
#82. Cause and effect are linked that way in a twisted form. You can pile up all the worlds you like and the twisting will never be undone.
Haruki Murakami
#84. I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
William Shakespeare
#85. Amazing. Three hundred years of segregation undone by a single girl. She must be as incredible as she looks.
Veronica Rossi
#86. Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.
From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954
Sylvia Plath
#87. Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together.
Amy Chan
#88. When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.
Geoffrey Wood
#89. I liked Hell,
I liked to go there alone
relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone.
The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then?
I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come.
Then nothing did, and no one.
Marie Howe
#90. We are spawn of woodland apes. No code has been undone. Neither faith nor reason will deliver us. We must look to the trees.
Sam Lipsyte
#91. Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
Bono
#92. In innocence, she'll light the fire
And set ablaze the fun'ral pyre
And one shall rise and one shall fall,
By hand of she who'll lead them all.
Marked twice by beast in time of rage,
And born again as the Wolfsmage.
A house of magic be undone
By she who can remake the sun.
Cyrese Covelli
#93. Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?
Mikhail Gorbachev
#94. Many were the offenses to be undone, the wrongs to be rectified, the grievances to be redressed, the abuses to be corrected and the debts to be satisfied.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#95. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
#96. The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it's somebody's job and not yours.
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
Terry Pratchett
#98. If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.
Confucius
#99. Whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#100. I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.
Kirsten Dunst
