Top 100 Undo Quotes
#1. But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
Salvador Plascencia
#2. Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.
David Richo
#3. Unbutton, unzip, unclip, untie, undo, undress."
"Understood," she replied.
Michael Faudet
#4. It is unfair that life doesn't come with a rewind button; an undo button that can reset time after you make a terrible mistake.
Melissa Ford
#5. You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to discriminate, so you'd better think about it.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Here they were, the people we were becoming, about to knock on our front door, hoping they could undo the mistakes we were making at that very moment.
Christopher Barzak
#8. In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.
Emily Giffin
#9. If I could undo my past for you, McKenzie, I would. But I don't have that power. No fae does.
Sandy Williams
#10. The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.
Voltaire
#11. The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
William Hurt
#12. So she should not wish to undo the past but learn to accept its consequences, and remember that not all consequences were evil.
Christina Henry
#13. How it irks me to have to take her hand, allow her to pull my dress over my head, undo my corsets and strip them off my, and have her see my blue veined swollen flesh and the hairy triangle that still proclaims with lunatic insistence a non-existent womanhood.
Margaret Laurence
#14. One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. Compassion may not fix a problem. It may not undo a wrong, but it may bring a little light into the life of someone who is suffering.
Karlyle Tomms
#16. That love seemed to increase their desire to undo the corporations that made them. It used to be you had to make munitions to piss people off. Now it was enough to be large, global and successful. That made it a more radical, systematic critique, Nash thought. And more futile, naturally.
Dana Spiotta
#17. Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.
Thomas Brooks
#18. You're wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?"
"I want to be with you."
The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath.
The brittle silence told me I'd done something I couldn't ever undo. I'd changed everything.
Molly O'Keefe
#19. The League academy would be horrified to find out that one woman's tears could undo all their expensive programs. No wonder they kept their assassins locked down.
-Nykyrian's thoughts
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?
Douglas Wynne
#21. I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.
Sylvia Plath
#22. You can't undo the past. And you can't put it back together either.
Chris Cole
#23. This grace does not undo a tragedy or pardon a wrong, but it becomes the first step toward a more hopeful future.
Shane Claiborne
#24. Look for the copper tablet-box,
Undo its bronze lock,
Open the door to its secret,
Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it,
The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.
Stephanie Dalley
#25. To reiterate, no matter how much pepper you eat, it won't undo the ludicrous amount of salt you ate before it.
Allie Brosh
#26. [looked at other peoples lives and said,] 'How can one let it come to that? How can one not undo this ugly situation?' But now, when the disaster had fallen on his head, he not only did not think of how to undo the situation, but did not want to know about it at all.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. U.S. society, after all, continues to be starkly segregated along class and race lines, never allowing people to have the sort of interactions necessary to undo prejudices, stereotypes, and oppressions.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
#28. We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world aboutthe American Black man.
John Oliver Killens
#29. Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which I have done, yet I may, with Thy aid, do better hereafter than I have done heretofore.
Howard Pyle
#30. This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
#31. The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.
Muhammad Yunus
#32. There's a moment that we all come to, in our own time, in our own space, where all that we've done, we can undo, if our heart's in the right place.
Garth Brooks
#33. From around his neck started to undo the buttons on the front of his
Jeffrey Archer
#34. We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to start over, to undo the errors of history
to relive mankind's awkward adolescence with all the wisdom of our modern age. But everything was happening so fast.
Isaac Marion
#35. The truth is that I did feel bad before, but now my patience is at a thread. It's not as if I can go back and undo the past.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back (210)
Cormac McCarthy
#37. When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#38. Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?
Laura Lam
#39. The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
Seneca The Younger
#40. See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you. You know that, right? Can you nod for me? Breathe a little? Tender humor mixed with the concern in his face could undo her. And give her reassurance. She was rather amazed at the combination.
Joey W. Hill
#41. To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#42. All the pain on the outside can not undo what is felt on the inside.
LIZ
#43. I have always loved you ... Since the first day I saw you, and even more with each day. The loving of you threatens to undo me now.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#45. I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.
Mitch Albom
#46. I have knots in my years that I can't undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught
Sue Monk Kidd
#47. Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
Ambrose
#48. I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
Richard Wright
#49. The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.
Lillian B. Rubin
#51. What little private tutoring I'd done, to raise my standard of living, soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was generally impossible, the variance of intelligence extreme, and that nothing could undo or even mitigate this basic inequality.
Michel Houellebecq
#52. Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.
Janette Rallison
#53. It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the ... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And it has been that way ever since the beginning.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#54. Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?
Carrie Ryan
#55. I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
Ike Turner
#56. I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.
Susie Orbach
#57. When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.
Leonard Ravenhill
#58. I pulled on the restraints, frustrated, hurting, and completely devastated. I could feel tears sliding down my skin, into my ears, and back over my scalp. Which told me that they'd cut off my hair, too. For some reason, that little bit of vanity was what it took to undo me completely.
Elizabeth Schechter
#59. If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.
Kate DiCamillo
#60. ...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
#61. Judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.
Helen Garner
#62. I stroke a finger over my own top button, undo it, then let my hand drop with an exaggerated sigh. "It's not quite the same," I declare, "ripping my own clothes off.
Kate Tough
#63. I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.
Kate DiCamillo
#64. And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?
Meg Cabot
#65. I don't make our bed in the morning, standing firm on the adolescent belief that there's no sense in doing something you're just going to undo at the end of the day.
Shauna Niequist
#66. The resolution of the Phoenix Saga was one of the most frustrating experiences that I think any of us ever had, but I also think it was the right move. The decision, three years later, to undo the Phoenix Saga with the resurrection of Jean was less so, but that's in my opinion.
Chris Claremont
#67. He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#68. Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness,to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and ye break every yoke?
Anonymous
#69. A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Abigail Van Buren
#70. Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.
Michele Bachmann
#71. Why do you assume it's something you've done, and something you can undo at will? I'm not some arithmetic problem just waiting for you to show your work properly, Locke. Did
Scott Lynch
#72. 'I'm sorry' won't fix what's been broken. It can't reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened. But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a pretty good patch up job.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#73. Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.
William Watson
#74. Go back, go back, undo these days and let us go back to before.
N. Griffin
#75. He's never stared at her like this before. Sometimes he gazed at her as if he wanted to be her undoing, but just then it was as if he wanted her to undo him.
Stephanie Garber
#76. Today, Jackson and Holly are in love. Tomorrow, she will lie dying in his arms. Yesterday, he must undo it all ...
Julie Cross
#77. Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. If you wish to undo all the "damage" you imagine yourself to have done, demonstrate that in your actions.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.
Dean Koontz
#79. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
Libba Bray
#80. The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).
Richard Baxter
#81. Sometimes
the beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend days
trying
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep.
Nayyirah Waheed
#82. and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back.
Donal Ryan
#83. One cannot undo what has happened. But the inexorable march of time offers the wise opportunities for redemption. I entreat you, do not escape. Stay in this world and do your karma.
Amish Tripathi
#84. Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
Thomas Lynch
#85. You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
Jennifer Aniston
#86. To arrive at sex, you first have to undo the zip of the girl's dress. And between zip and sex lay a process in which twenty- maybe thirty- subtle decisions and judgements had to be made
Haruki Murakami
#87. Only with steadfast memories can we now be strong so as to undo the mistakes of the past, to begin anew and build from the rubble of their betrayal ...
F. Sionil Jose
#88. A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Jose Bergamin
#89. And I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.
James Lee Burke
#90. Frustrated people needed to undo some feature of their environment, while regretful people needed to undo their own actions. "The
Michael Lewis
#91. Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.
Elena Ferrante
#92. I had the same worry that we wouldn't later be able to undo whatever it was we were doing to ourselves.
Augusten Burroughs
#93. Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
Eileen Wilks
#94. We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.
John Bingham
#95. Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.
Shaun Hick
#96. I can't undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
Sophocles
#98. Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo. So we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with the scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair.
Neal Shusterman
#99. I so wish life also had the option of undo making it easier to deal with things you erred. I would have gone back in time to undo every mistake of mine, for which I have paid a very heavy price.
Namrata
#100. Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do.
Auliq Ice
