Undo Quotes - page 9

Ye know not how void is your hope and your living: Depart with your helping lest yet ye undo me! (William Morris)
To have left undone what thou shouldst have done: to have lost the faithfulness, the reverence, the modesty that is in thee! View quote
Epictetus
They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I wasn't in the room with the president and Mr. Tenet. But I can tell that you that the people who were working against Osama bin Laden were assured from the first day that much of the work we had done in the last decade would be undone by that war. View quote
Michael Scheuer
When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. View quote
Tori Amos
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me. View quote
Joseph Addison
I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone. View quote
Bill Nighy
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 century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature. View quote
Arundhati Roy
You get these fear memories that are hard to undo. View quote
Temple Grandin
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. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Upon reaching a place of safety, the Indians held a council. They had been defeated in their long expected great battle. The "long knives" were pressing on. Cornstalk enquired, what should be done. No one spoke. After a solemn pause, Cornstalk arose. "We must fight, or we are undone. Let us kill our women and children, and go and fight till we die." He sat down. After a long pause, he rose again and striking his tomahawk into the council post, said - "Then I'll go and make peace." (Cornstalk)
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. View quote
Edith Sitwell
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth. View quote
John Lyly
When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate! View quote
Charles Spurgeon
No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you." I managed a wavering smile, tasting blood in my mouth. "You sure about that, Dad? Because he's doneto me. View quote
Richelle Mead
We will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you." "You sure about that, Dad? Because he's doneto me. View quote
Richelle Mead
It is the passions that do and undo everything. View quote
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. View quote
Deepak Chopra
Who can undo What time hath done? who can win back the wind? Beckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep? View quote
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Hamilcar also told Hannibal about elephants and how you must always have plenty of these animals to scare the enemy. He attributed much of his own success to elephants and believed they would have won the First Punic War for him if things hadn't gone slightly haywire; for the war had turned into a naval affair. But even when the fighting was on land, the Romans did not scare nearly so well as expected. The Romans had learned about elephants while fighting Pyrrhus, whose elephants defeated him in 275 B. C., and even before that, in Alexander's time, King Porus had been undone by his own elephants. Thus, if history had taught any one thing up to that time, it was never to use elephants in war. (Will Cuppy)
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
I saw myself,” Taran answered. "In the time I watched, I saw strength – and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other. "But this, too, I saw,” he went on. "Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Words: with them you can do and undo as you please. View quote
Elena Ferrante
I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy. View quote
Harry Browne