quotes about Undone
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What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again
-- Anne FrankSource : Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.148, GENERAL PRESS
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What is done can never be undone.
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I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.
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Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite
-- Clive Barker -
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Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
-- Elizabeth FrySource : Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Katharine Fry, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.307
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The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
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When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.
-- John Adams -
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As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
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Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.
-- Judith Butler -
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small.
-- Liu Bei -
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Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.
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A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
-- Max Beerbohm -
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Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
Without work men are utterly undone
-- Nevil ShuteSource : Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”
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He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
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Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone.
-- Paul Arden -
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
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One more such victory and we are undone.
-- Pyrrhus of EpirusSource : Quoted in Plutarch, Parallel Lives
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The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.
-- Rae ArmantroutSource : Rae Armantrout (2009). “Versed”, p.70, Wesleyan University Press
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There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.
-- Richard SibbesSource : Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.3856, Titus Books
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
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With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.
-- TarkanSource : Song: Over, Album: Come Closer, 2006
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Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.
-- Victor LaValleSource : Victor LaValle (2012). “The Devil in Silver: A Novel”, p.34, Spiegel & Grau
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Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
-- Yoshida KenkoSource : "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.
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More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.
-- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt