Undoing Quotes

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. (Horace Mann)
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. View quote
Chuck Schumer
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time. View quote
Kate Smith
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. View quote
Moshe Sharett
The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. View quote
Thomas Moore
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth. View quote
John Zerzan
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. View quote
Arthur Middleton
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet. View quote
Carl Rakosi
For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing. View quote
Robert Heilbroner
The dissimulation of the woven texture can in any case take centuries to undo its web: a web that envelops a web, undoing the web for centuries; reconstituting it too as an organism, indefinitely regenerating its own tissue behind the cutting trace, the decision of each reading. There is always a surprise in store for the anatomy or physiology of any criticism that might think it had mastered the game, surveyed all the threads at once, deluding itself, too, in wanting to look at the text without touching it, without laying a hand on the "object," without risking- which is the only chance of entering into the game, by getting a few fingers caught- the addition of some new thread. (Jacques Derrida)
I caught sight of my reflection; I caught it in the window. I saw the darkness in my heart; I saw the signs of my undoing. They had been there from the start, And the darkness still has work to do. The knotted chord's untying. They're heated and they're holy. Oh they're sitting there on high. So secure with everything they're buying. View quote
Peter Gabriel
Whatever name you give it; will, or steady purpose, or onepointedness of the mind, you come back to earnestness, sincerity, honesty. (...) We are complex beings, at war within and without. We contradict ourselves all the time, undoing today the work of yesterday. No wonder we are stuck. A little of integrity would make a lot of difference. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates.... It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are. View quote
Pierre Bayle
Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing. View quote
Orson Scott Card
And then he realized that he could never make anything out of the Unmaker, could never make the Unmaker do or be anything because it was only Undoing and Unbeing. It wasn't the Unmaker he needed to call to, it was all the living things around him, the trees, the grass, the earth, the air itself. It was the greensong that he needed to restore. View quote
Orson Scott Card
To subordinate my judgment to his desires was the undoing of me. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. View quote
Margery Allingham
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. View quote
Agatha Christie
Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere. View quote
Charles B. Rangel
Don't overestimate your familiarity with technologies you barely understand. It could be your undoing. (Alastair Reynolds)
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Amusingly, it [astrology] falls foul of our modern taboo against lazy stereotyping. How would we react if a newspaper published a daily column that read something like this: "Germans: It is in your nature to be hard-working and methodical, which should serve you well at work today. In your personal relationships, especially this evening, you will need to curb your natural tendency to obey orders. Chinese: Inscrutability has many advantages, but it may be your undoing today. British: Your stiff upper lip may serve you well in business dealings, but try to relax and let yourself go in your social life. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government. View quote
Jerrold Nadler