Top 78 Undo Things Quotes
#2. The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.
Jennifer Edwards
#3. for no god may undo what another god has done...
Ovid
#4. Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.
Robin Hobb
#6. I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe ...
H.G.Wells
#7. If we all got what we deserved we'd all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won't undo it now.
Rosamund Hodge
#8. You," she murmured, using both hands to undo his belt, "are the sexiest man I have ever met."
He made her think bad thoughts simply by breathing.
Nalini Singh
#9. Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.
Nicholas Sparks
#10. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.
Rae Earl
#11. I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters
Gunter Grass
#12. We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
Jules Renard
#13. We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
Xavier Becerra
#14. It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture.
Michael Pollan
#15. Our urge to undo things must come from an idea that what we find in the natural world isn't good enough, that our tinkering will make it better. Spare us the scandal of improvement, I say.
Gretel Ehrlich
#16. One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.
Ibn Hazm
#17. We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow.
Nadia Hashimi
#18. Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday!
That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,
To untell days, and to redeem these hours.
Thomas Heywood
#19. Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace creates a stability that even Satan cannot undo.
Tony Evans
#20. Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
Marcel Proust
#21. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Cindy Crawford
#22. Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not in his mind undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.
Herbert Marcuse
#23. There are some things you can never return from. Some things you can never undo.
Elissa Sussman
#24. You can't undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.
A.D. Posey
#25. But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Anne Tyler
#26. There has to be something we can do to undo whatever it is we have done.
Ellen Mead
#27. You don't undo thirteen years of brainwashing in two days.
Neal Shusterman
#28. Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
Elizabeth Lesser
#29. Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.
Terry Teachout
#30. I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.
Scarlett Thomas
#31. The world wants you to find extraordinary women threatening. Undo that training. When you feel threatened, it's a great sign that you have just found an ally who will bring you new energy and insight and together you will rise.
Rachel Rosenfelt
#32. You can lay your strategies as carefully as you like, but women will undo them at a stroke.
Salman Rushdie
#33. Love is such a wild and reckless creature. It cannot be planned or threaded. It cannot be controlled. Love can coexist with Fate, or it can undo it. Love is the only thing more powerful than Fate.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#34. It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
Charles Dickens
#35. Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#36. There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#37. Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.
James Lee Burke
#38. You can't undo something that's happened; you can't take back a word that's already been said out loud.
Jodi Picoult
#39. This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
#40. The press is dying to paint me as now trying to undo the New Deal. I remind them I voted for F.D.R. 4 times. I'm trying to undo the "Great Society." It was L.B.J.'s war on poverty that led to our present mess.
Ronald Reagan
#41. Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
Oscar Wilde
#42. I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.
Amy Tan
#43. What if you could be young again and were able to undo the things that were done that made you into the person you would later become. But then who would you be.
Robert B. Parker
#44. You can't undo the past ... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce Willis
#45. It's the favorite part of my day."
My eyes opened lazily. "What do you mean?" I whispered.
"When you undo them and run your hands throughout the waves. That's my favorite part of the day.
Fisher Amelie
#46. Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.
Benjamin Barber
#47. Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).
Richard Baxter
#48. I stay in that state of mind for the next couple of days, in the places that only exist in the past. The things you can't undo get lodged in the darkest corners of your mind, where nothing ever seems to get solved, just recycled into new anxiety.
Caroline Burau
#49. We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.
Laurens Van Der Post
#50. Zarek
shrugged, taking it in stride. "I'm an asshole. I admit it. I've been
going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a
few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than
me." -ZAREK
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
Tertullian
#52. You undo me, Savannah. Every time I look at you, I feel like a teenager. I can't stop thinking about you, or wanting to touch you. I've never wanted to kiss someone so badly or so often. It's overwhelming to be so thoroughly captivated by someone so much better than me. And you are better than me.
Ayden K. Morgen
#53. We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
Aldous Huxley
#55. Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.
Martin Seligman
#56. I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it.
Charlotte Delbo
#57. No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
Leonard Cohen
#58. We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
Paul Kagame
#59. I realized I'd be stuck doing all the hard stuff," she reasoned. "All the diapers and doctors' appointments and discipline, and you'd just breeze in and be Fun Daddy. I'd do all the work to make them good people, and you'd undo it anyway, and they'd love you and hate me.
Gillian Flynn
#60. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life
H.M. Ward
#61. I wish functions of MS Office suite worked on Life, and things were as simple as pressing "Ctrl + Z" to undo the accident that changed everything
Rajat Mishra
#62. Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.
Kami Garcia
#64. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures. He
Kami Garcia
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.
Janette Rallison
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. There are things we can't undo, but perhaps there is a kind of constructive remorse that could transform regrettable acts into something of service to life.
Gail Godwin
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.
Gayle Forman
