Undoing Quotes - page 2

I am the only living witness but I must say the truth. Contrary to the opinion of the National Socialists that the Jews were a highly organized group, the appalling fact was that they had no organization whatsoever. The mass of the Jewish people were taken completely by surprise. Never before has a people gone so unsuspectingly to its disaster. After the first anti-Jewish actions of the Germans, they thought now the wave was over and so they walked back to their undoing. (Erich von dem Bach)
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done. View quote
Judy LaMarsh
Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing! View quote
Arthur Miller
American wheat, sold in Europe at lower prices than the domestic product, brought on a crisis in European peasant agriculture, sending a migrant stream of ruined peasants to seek new sources of livelihood in the burgeoning Americas. Ironically many of them made the journey westward on the same ships that carried to Europe the wheat that proved their undoing. View quote
Eric Wolf
Your early successes can be your undoing later. View quote
Michael Hyatt
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Simon Van Booy
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought. View quote
Daniel Quinn
It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing. View quote
Eve Ensler
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened. (Katherine Applegate)
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
No more would I go along with Plato in exiling the poets, who play on the limbic cortex. Not even they are powerful enough to evoke the whole of man. If we are to survive our own destruction of our world and of ourselves by our advance of culture we had better learn soon to modify our genes to make us more intelligent. It is our last chance, that by increasing our diversity we may be able to make some sort of man that can survive without an ecological niche on this our earth. We may be able to live in gas masks and eat algae and distill the ocean. I doubt that we have time enough. We are, I think, nearing the end of a course that left the main line of evolution to overspecialize in brain to its own undoing. Time will tell. View quote
Warren S. McCulloch
Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing. View quote
Mia Farrow
To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble. View quote
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world. View quote
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. "You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. "Ah baby. View quote
Maya Banks
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. We must purposely be kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart which goes out of itself gets large and full. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others. View quote
Horace Mann
Yamamoto was an aggressive and inspiring officer, but he made the error of dividing his huge force five ways and of thinking that his foe would behave in a predictable way. After his crushing defeat on Midway, he ordered a general retreat and took ill in his cabin. U.S. naval intelligence again was his undoing. When he took off on an inspection tour from Rabaul, American fighter planes were up and waiting for him. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
That will be her undoing," gasped Artemis, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. "Artemis Fowl will never be." "I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?" said Holly. View quote
Eoin Colfer
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. (Euripides)
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. View quote
Holbrook Jackson
he was undoing the wooden box, and he took out the silver sword. "This is the best of my treasures," he said. "It will bring me luck. And it will bring you luck, because you gave it to me. I don't tell anybody my name - it is not safe. But because you gave me the sword and I didn't borrow it, I will tell you." View quote
Ian Serraillier
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change. View quote
Peter Drucker
The continuation of authority in the same person has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer Power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny. View quote
Simón Bolívar